Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

The rise of ISIS in Iraq is a wider threat to the stability of the Middle East and the West than many realise.

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