By: Sarwar Alam
Former UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson came under fire today (6) after he described the burqa as “oppressive” and compared Muslim women who wear the clothing to “letter boxes”. In his regular column in The Daily Telegraph on Sunday, the Conservative Party MP had laid out his views against a complete ban on the Islamic clothing in line with the recent burqa ban in Denmark. “If you tell me that the burka (burqa) is oppressive, then I am with you I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like…
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