Syria Bans islamic Veil

How is this for irony. Western "feminists" are more islamic than the bashar assad regime in Syria. Those who claim to fight for women's equality defend the misogynist islamic practice of shrouding women.

Syria Bans Face Veil, British Minister and American Feminists Defend the Burqa
2010 July 19

by Phyllis Chesler


Syria bans the veil as American feminists continue to paint it as a liberating choice.

Syria—yes, Syria—Bashar Asad’s Syria–has just banned full face veils in their universities.

According to Syria’s minister of higher education, “All female students wearing the full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses … the niqab contradicts university ethics and compromises the government’s secular identity.”

Amazingly, the Minister confirmed that “hundreds of primary school teachers who were wearing the niqab at government-run schools were transferred last month to administrative jobs.”

Other Arab, Muslim countries with long and hard-won secular identities are now also under attack by fundamentalists and Islamists who want to face-veil women or at least to have them wear headscarves. Thus, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey are now also at risk. Jordan’s government has tried to discourage face veils by “playing up reports of robbers who wear veils as masks. Turkey also bans Muslim headscarves in universities, with many saying “attempts to allow them in schools amount to an attack on modern Turkey’s secular laws.”

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