Education, not religious accommodation must be the priority in our schools
The niqab is forbidden in educational establishments in many Muslim-majority countries
The niqab is forbidden in educational establishments in many Muslim-majority countries
Attempts to address human rights abuses within minority communities is too often met with accusations of bigotry.
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".