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Monday, June 22, 2009 12:00 AM

Is the burqa a prison?

Sarkozy says it is. But wouldn't a ban be just another attack on women's freedom?
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Monday, June 22, 2009 04:11 PM

    It's not like Muslim feminists aren't having this conversation.

    But reading the comments here, it seems like it's too much to ask that before bloviating on what Muslim women think, how they feel, and what they should or shouldn't do, outsiders should go and listen to what Muslim feminists have to say about various forms of veiling.

    Listening to women talk about their own experience is, apparently, irrelevant to the process of deciding what is good for women.

    —Elusis Read Elusis's other letters

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