Today is World Hijab Day, a date in the calendar founded ten years ago, apparently. The veiling of Muslim women is still a highly contentious issue, and even in a book of 155,000 words, I can't offer a definitive opinion on the subject. However, by focusing on the freedom of the individual, the human right of autonomy, the issue may become a little clearer. I am not ‘for’ or ‘against’ the hijab, or any other kind of veil; these are, after all, just items of clothing. What I am ‘for’ is a woman’s right to choose; what I am ‘against’ is religiously mandated compulsion.
Licensed today: a narrowboat entering Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, at Tunnel End, near Marsden, West Yorkshire…
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