Excellent set of arguments sky. Unfortunately we'll never know what Richard231's response would be. He simply said he'd pull his child out of a class taught by a woman in a veil. No explanation - which is what I was asking for when you chose to respond.

Where was your distinction about extremists when you were calling for all Muslim columnists to prove their loyalty? Where is your recognition that wearing a veil may be a woman's choice or are you assuming that she has been co-opted and brainwashed to think she has no other choice? I'm curious about your basis for a "human right" to deal with people face to face. There are numerous times when we don't do that. Phone calls, Catholic confessionals, and don't forget that the wearing of a veil has long been a tradition at weddings and funerals in the Christian world. And given that the number of veil wearing women in Canada is extremely small and that it continues to be a controversial issue, I'd hardly claim that it's being "normalized".