Tag: Quranic injunction

By Saeed Naqvi, In normal times Britain's former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's observation that burqa-clad women resemble walking "letter boxes" and "bank robbers" would evoke laughter. But these are not normal times. Just when liberals were beginning to pelt stones at him, a startling turn to the debate was given by Taj Hargay, Imam of Oxford. "The burqa is a Wahabi fifth column... We will wake up in the Islamic Republic of Britain." Johnson's observation is mischievous, and has a political purpose, the Imam's an exaggeration. The observations are troubling for an...