Education, not religious accommodation must be the priority in our schools
The niqab is forbidden in educational establishments in many Muslim-majority countries
Lejla Kuric
Britain’s sharia councils and secular alternatives
The secular legal system can uphold the rights of minority women forced to conform to patriarchal religious laws, writes Lejla Kuric.
Comment: Opposing religious bigotry is not bigotry
It is time for the Left to acknowledge that there is a conflict between reactionaries and progressives within what is referred to as ‘the Muslim Community’.
If we fail to defend the rights of all women, we will only empower sexists
Segregation is an immoral concept designed to force one group of people into a separate, subordinate existence.
The day I met Tommy Robinson
Last week Lejla Kuric met the former leader of the English Defence League (EDL) Tommy Robinson. This is what she found out.
Britain is failing to protect minority women
Attempts to address human rights abuses within minority communities is too often met with accusations of bigotry.
The progressive case against the face veil
If opposition to the face veil is bigoted then my grandmother and great-aunt are bigots for describing their own experience of wearing the burqa in the 1930s and 40s as “physical and mental slavery”.