Choice is Empowerment

Submitted by Amelia Dawson (United Kingdom), Mar 30, 2013 at 10:59

Surely banning face coverings is just as repressive as being forced to wear one. Why is it always assumed that Muslim women have no desire to wear them themselves? maybe i'm being incredibly naive here, but surely the choice of whether to wear one or not is what is empowering rather than to be told that they are forbidden?

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