A more modest modesty

Robert Spencer reports on Islamic schools requiring girls from age 11 to 18 to wear the niqab, the Islamic veil which covers the face. Immediately someone in the combox defending the practice states that this is better than having them dress like "half naked western girls". This is the kind of false dichotomy/straw man argument that you get from a mind unused to logic, akin to watching me try to do more than two chin-ups. The girls at the school where we send our kids, as well as those attending most other Catholic schools in the area, wear modest uniforms which neither flaunt their flesh nor cover their face.

If anyone seriously believes the only choices available are either radical Islam or decadence they should open their eyes. This idea is demonstrably false, but it makes great propaganda to use on the ignorant or those whose brains need a tune-up.