UK - BBC on the Muslim veil: video

Here's the BBC asking the right questions for a change. All too rare.



The niqab is nothing more than a political statement by militant Islamists and has nothing to do with true Islam. Muslim leaders agree.

"There is a significant difference between the hijab, a simple veil which frames the face, and the niqab, which leaves only the eyes visible" she added. "The first is a religious duty, but the second is a sheer cultural convention, which has no raison d'etre in Islamic sources" she said.