28 March 2010

Brave New Peekaboo World

"We would never for a moment view with equanimity large numbers of masked men on our streets. But how quickly we’ve got used to walking around, say, Tower Hamlets in East London and seeing more fully covered women than you do in Amman."
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UPDATE: Hmmm... I'm gonna guess...

...for the next little while, Burqa-clad women in Moscow, New York, London & Toronto... are gonna get all the personal space they need... especially on the subway.