Ban the Burqa

“If you wanted a piece of candy, would you choose an unwrapped piece or one that came in a wrapper?” she asked.

“I am not candy,” I answered. “Women are not candy.”

- Ban the Burqa, by Mona Eltahawy

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Ban the Burqa

I am a Muslim, I am a feminist and I detest the full-body veil, known as a niqab or burqa. It erases women from society and has nothing to do with Islam but everything to do with the hatred for women at the heart of the extremist ideology that preaches it.

- Mona Eltahawy

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Question:

What do you think the author was hoping to achieve by writing this article? Do you think she succeeded?

Quotation: On creativity

“There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day the same way we teach Mathematics. Why? Why not? Maths is important, but so is dance.”

- Sir Ken Robinson, ‘Do schools kill creativity?’