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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:00 AM

The veil vs. French values

A Muslim woman is denied citizenship -- some say because she wears the niqab.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:47 AM

    "But is that not my right?"

    It may be her right to dress and do as she chooses, or perhaps as she has been subtly trained to choose; but it is an earned privilege to become a citizen of a particular country.

    This woman decided, upon moving to France, to behave in a clearly non-French fashion. She went out of her way to set herself apart from the French, and does not participate in French society in any meaningful way.

    They aren't deporting her, only acknowledging the fact that she just isn't French.

    —SB Read SB's other letters

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