Greetings, Colin!

I don’t know much about the history of veiling women, but poking around a bit on Wikipedia suggests that it goes back amongst Muslim women at least as far as the middle ages (I.E.: between 400 and 1000 AD). But I’m guessing it has gone in and out of religious “fashion” at various times.

I think we are on the same page, though, regarding tolerance and freedom. I sort of believe in the old “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins” premise. An individual may choose to subjagate their will to another, and I suppose I can’t really argue against that. But a culture that demands that one entire class of people (E.G.: all women) must submit to another is not one that I want to tolerate in Canada.