I’d wanted to blog about this earlier, but my browser suffered a crash in between, so I was forced to put off what I’d wanted to do until now. Well, you’ve probably all heard about former foreign secretary Jack Straw’s surprise criticism of the Islam…

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There is much debate about the veil these days, especially in Europe. When this debate rages in Western society, the debate should not be about religious customs, it should be about the dangers of multiculturalism, and the need for assimilation. Saira …

Muslim women are pictured at the Whitechapel market in east London. Former foreign minister Jack Straw has defended his call for Muslim women to remove their veils despite a storm of protests — and went further, saying he would like veils not to…

“British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed his former foreign secretary on Tuesday after Jack Straw said Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations more difficult,” Reuters reports. In an interview, Blair said Straw had raised an importan…

Ethnic diversity, we are told, is a Good Thing, and to some extent, I have to agree: I have no desire to live among a bunch of people who are exactly like me, assuming that there exists a bunch of…