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By yicky yacky (Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 06:58:46 AM EST) veils, monkeys (all tags)

Well, it's now been two weeks since Blackburn MP Jack Straw (the former Foreign Secretary and current Leader of the House Of Commons) penned his now-infamous column regarding the wearing of veils (niqab) by women adhering to a certain interpretation of the tenets of Islam. Perhaps surprisingly and perhaps not, the debate is still rumbling unabated.


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