The Case of the Veiled Woman
I have a question about the case of a Muslim woman who wants to be allowed to wear her veil in court to testify against an alleged rapist: Why has this become an issue of women's rights as opposed to the issue of religious freedom that it actually is?
In fact, why does it always become a story about women's rights whenever the veil is raised, so to speak, as a topic of religious freedom vs the laws of the land?
The law trumps religious freedom. Gender is irrelevant.
