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Veil debate in Britain is also divisive for Muslims

By Kevin Sullivan & Karla Adam

Veil Debate in Britain Is Also Divisive for Muslims

Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 21, 2006

LONDON, Oct. 20 -- Wearing a Muslim veil revealing only her chestnut eyes, Maheesa Razia grabbed two small bundles of coriander and handed them to a vegetable vendor at the Whitechapel Street Market in east London.

She passed the man a coin and walked off, quietly completing the most mundane of daily tasks while wearing a garment -- the full-face veil, or niqab -- that has caused a raging debate about how well Britain's nearly 2 million Muslims are integrating into society.



    
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