Slip away the modesty cloth of faux-feminist posturing over the veil, and you’ll find an ugly skin of nationalism, male intolerance and misogyny.
In his article “Thinly veiled threat“, Mehdi Hasan impressively fails to assume that the debate over the niqab and burqa — recently outlawed in Belgium, with similar laws tabled across Europe — is all about him. This sets him apart from nearly every man writing, legislating and proclaiming about this most symbolically loaded piece of clothing.
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