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A veiled assault on liberty

AS I sat at the9/11 plus 5 summit two months ago at George Washington University the audience gasped. "The most incomprehensible contradictionof your generation is that you make a lot of noise about Muslim women wearing veils, while you walk around with those thongs," said MJ Akbar, the Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Age. While the parallel itself incited loud guffaws in the audience, the implicit point Akbar was making about the veil was much more serious -- that whether to wear a veil or not is purely a woman's choice. Indeed, the very fact that we are debating the issue of veils in the West epitomizes the very cultural ignorance and assaults on liberty Muslims are experiencing in the post-9/11 climate.

Assaults against the veil have increased dramatically in the West during the last few years

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