"Lifting the Turkish Ban on Hijab: A Secularist Responds
Rosie Healy
Issue date: 3/3/08 Section: Opinion
In last week's issue of the Mass Media, Reem Al-Zaim discussed Turkey's landmark vote to lift the ban on Muslim women's hijab, or headscarves, in universities and government buildings. Like Ms. Al-Zaim, I place little stock in democracies that fail to uphold basic rights of individual expression, so I took some pleasure in this news. But I dispute her representation of secularism- presumably in the United States as well as Turkey- as a bastion of one-sided propaganda whose criticisms of Islam are rooted in ignorance."
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