Nice to know that the first Muslim in the UK's House of Lords has his head screwed on right:
Lord Ahmed of Rotherham called for a sensible and sensitive debate among Muslims on whether veils were needed in today's society...
"But there's nothing in the Koran to say that the wearing of a niqab is desirable, let alone compulsory. It's purely cultural. It's an identity thing which has been misinterpreted.
"They were supposed to be worn so that women wouldn't be harassed.
"But my argument is that women, and communities as a whole, are now being harassed because they are wearing them."
Women's bodies are marked, they are judged if they choose to reveal or conceal.
The judgment can be either flattering or critical.
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