possibly noteworthy wrote:

Having spent time getting to know young British Muslims, I believe that comments like Mr. Straw’s will be counterproductive. That is because the niqab is a symptom and not a cause of rising tensions.

"The young women who choose to wear the niqab, Mr. Rehman told me, are "rebelling against what their parents tell them to do, they’re trying to differentiate themselves.”

Following up on the "let it go" thread.

i was in the city center of my hometown today but saw something which i've noticed before but is such a nice mixure of symbols that it amuses me and I feel worthy of comment, it feels emblematic. A mother and daughter (this is something of a guess - intuition based on body language) were in the queue in front of me at Boots ( a highstreet drugstore chain in the UK ), the mother was in full niqab, head to toe including gloves, her teenage daughter just wore a black headscarf. What intrigued was that the scarf was embossed all over with the Calvin Klein logo.