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Burqa empowers women, says British minister
As debate intensifies across Europe on banning the veil, a minister has defended a Muslim woman's right to wear the burqa and says it is empowering.

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said on Monday that women were "empowered" by the freedom to wear the face coverings.
Every picture of her on Google: not one in a burqa ...
Her comments came after her colleague, Immigration Minister Damian Green, resisted demands from within the Tory party to ban the burqa, according to Daily Mail. Green said a ban would be "rather un-British" and run contrary to the conventions of a "tolerant and mutually respectful society."

Posted by: Fred 2010-07-20
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