Widgetized Section   The right to veil  By Emily Butselaar / 19
January, 2010  Suggesting banning women from dressing how they
please is deeply offensive says Jess McCabe  Once again, the
issue of veiling has resurfaced, this time after UKIP’s former
party leader Nigel Farage called for Muslim women to be banned
from covering their faces in public places and public
buildings, according to the Guardian.  No doubt enlivened by the
proposals for similar bans in France and Denmark (in the latter
country, a recent study found that only the three women wear the
burqa, along with a handful of women who wear the niqab). Farage
wants us to believe such a ban would be neither “radical nor
ridiculous”. The Guardian reports that he wants to impose such a
ban in the name of: “preventing extremists from imposing their
culture — including Sharia law — on Britain”.  When he talks
about Muslim women who chose to wear the niqab (and other forms
of veiling which involve covering their faces), as “imposing
their culture” on Brit