text: Countries governed by Islamism are just shining beacons of individual liberal freedoms (just look at Turkey's "progression" under the AKP or the 57 members of the OIC at the UN. The fact that smug "progressives" in Canada champion symbols of female subjugation is shameless irony, considering the niqab is only common in countries where women are treated like second class citizens, without exception.  Interesting how smug progressives are silent when liberal female Muslims are bullied into submission or ostracized as provocateurs for choosing not to wear head coverings. In Iran, women are beaten by morality police for showing too much hair but in Canada, it's always a women's choice - blind ignorance by Canada's leftwing blowhards demands we can't defend women who are ostracized for failing to submit to their pious obligations, because it's not PC. The double standard is truly shocking - Christianity and Judaism are fair game for satire, but Islam is beyond reproach?