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France’s Veil Ban: Burqas, Bikinis and BS

The new French law against full-face veils is almost as dangerous as it is absurd—and the cops charged with enforcing it know it. Christopher Dickey on the “masquerade.”

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Kenza Drider, a French Muslim of North African descent, wears a niqab outside the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris April 11, 2011. (Gonzalo Fuentes, Reuters / Landov)