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I Hope They Ban The Burka In Lebanon Too

April 13, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

William Langley:

Women who refuse to wear the hijab, and, increasingly, the burka, are intimidated and brutalised […] This is the problem with all those charming liberal pieties about allowing women to choose how they wish to dress. Large numbers of the women who wear the burka — whether in France, Britain or anywhere else — don’t have a choice.

Honestly, women in full veils creep me out..