  Clockwise from top left: veiled girls protesting the veil ban in France, a stylish woman adjusting her scarf, and women in full veil in local protests "The demand that [Muslim women] abandon the veil will...make some women cling more fiercely to the garment that now symbolises their resistance to oppression" -- Karen Armstrong, author of Muhammad: Prophet for our Time parent page (11 - 17 January 2007, issue #827) |