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Tuesday, 17 October 2006

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Tony Blair calls the veil a “mark of separation”
Allahpundit

Thanks much to kasper kasper, our man in the UK, for clipping this. The news services are already buzzing about it.

Blair, like the public, is siding with Jack Straw, but I don’t know what he hopes or expects to happen here. If the wearing of the veil is a matter of faith or “identity” then Muslim women aren’t going to take it off simply to put the infidel at ease. Parliament could, presumably, pass a law prohibiting veils outright: it’d be the legislative version of that suttee anecdote Mark Steyn keeps foisting on us, and actually wouldn’t be as draconian as some measures taken in the U.S. to help integrate minorities. But I don’t see how it could be reconciled with the UK’s quasi-constitutional tradition of religious freedom.

One of our commenters criticized me the other day for offering no solutions to hard problems like Iraq and North Korea. Well, here you go, buddy. Here’s another one for the “intractable” pile.

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Posted by Bill Faith on October 17, 2006 at 01:24 PM in Great Britain, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

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