Tag: Fight against Coronavirus

By Mohammad Azeemullah Not long ago, many countries around the world seemed hostile to face coverings in public. They not only banned them but also discredited them as a ‘sign of subjugation’. Boris Johnson, when he was a foreign secretary, criticized Muslim women wearing face coverings as looking “like letter boxes”, and compared them to bank robbers and rebellious teenagers. Social Democrats and the conservative Austrian People's Party said that face coverings in public stood in the way of "open communication", and are an affront to "open society". In India, the Shiv Sena,...