Muslims Enraged. The Sun Rises In The East.

Times Online:

The leading candidate for the Indian presidency has enraged Muslim leaders by urging her fellow women to stop wearing the veil.

Pratibha Patil claimed that veils were only introduced to India in the 16th century to protect women from Muslim invaders, and were no longer needed.

She will need lots of security.

Maulana Khalid Rashid, a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, said that it was God who had asked women to wear a veil and that this was enshrined in the Koran, the Muslim holy book. The board is the highest authority for Muslims in India on laws governing personal matters.

“Any statement against the veil means an opinion against Allah and the Koran which no Muslim will tolerate,” Rashid told the Associated Press news agency.

Comments

[Hakim Abdullah]

Schroding,

Perhaps you are being misleading here,

"Pratibha Patil claimed that veils were only introduced to India in the 16th century to protect women from Muslim invaders, and were no longer needed."

Why would non-Muslims need to where the veil and why would Muslim leaders be out raged? There are gaps in this story, for the thinking person. But perhaps your readers are only interested in propaganda.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

Perhaps, non-Muslims wore the veil to protect themselves from the uncontrollable lust and sex-slavery of Muslim conquerors.

Perhaps, the Muslims are enraged because such rhetoric (a) shows their ancestors in a horrible light and (b) challenges the whole logic of the garbage bag, er, burqa.

Perhaps.