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Bad news for Muslim women

If a father insists, on pain of honour killing, that his daughter wear a hijab, we Westerners should not condemn it. Not according to the leader of the free world, whose speech I am drawn to by morbid curiosity:

It is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

No, let "us" leave any dictating to her father and brothers. Group rights trump individual rights. This is dire. Even former Home Secretary Jack Straw denounced the niqab.

Still, there is some good news on the literacy front:

[T]he United States will partner with any Muslim-majority country to support expanded literacy for girls

Or is it? Do they really want a champion of literacy who uses the phrase "partner with"?

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