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To be honest, I didn't know that this was such a problem. (See lots of veils - much more than here, though.) As for the interchange of the terms 'burkha' and 'niqab' among the French, not very surprising. This is a place that instituted programming for the immigrant influx after the pullout from Algeria in Arabic, rather than in the language that the new 'citizens' actually spoke.

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Althouse (of course) puts it far more elegantly and correctly when she states that this is "paternalism attacking paternalism."