On the one hand, I wish institutions in the US had the guts to do things like this. On the other hand, I’m continually finding myself giggling at urban American Muslim women’s interpretation of hijab/niqab. Just last Friday, at the main train station in Philadelphia, I saw a woman with the black veil covering everything but her eyes. Everything from the neck up, that is. On the bottom were way-too-tight pants working their way up into the butt and crotch slits of this way-overweight woman. And this is by no means the first time I’ve seen something like this in the New York and Philly areas.
Anyone dressed like that ought to cover their face in shame.