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Tu Nov 7 -

COURTROOM INTIFADA -

Shabnam Mughal appeared at a London immigration tribunal hearing in her own version of tribal attire with her face masked. When the presiding judge requested that she remove her tribal gear, she refused twice.

The niqab or tribal face mask is implicitly linked to issues of women's safety in remote locations or unsafe surroundings. It is a protective device which can be used when law enforcement is not quickly or easily accessible such as crowded outdoor marketplaces or strange cities affording population density and propinquity where a niqab may discourage molestation, groping, trangressive behavior or even kidnapping. In sum, it does have some legitimate applications. I support a woman's perogative to protect herself in unsafe situations.

But some syncretic cults have created shambolic religious practices which are actually atavistic or downright magical and which communicate that they are engaged in a passive-agressive anti-social campaign.

What if it were her religious belief to
appear in court with bare breasts?

:: UK Daily Mail ::

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