Not All Headcoverings are Equal
The Curious Case of Noah Feldman and the New York Times

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
February 8, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/272/not-all-headcoverings-are-equal

Excerpt:

Why has the NY Times published an article today ("Veiled Democracy") written by Harvard Law Professor, Noah Feldman, in which Feldman explains that if Turkey allows Muslim women to wear the Islamic headscarf in universities that Turkey will be that much closer to a liberal democracy?

Pinch me. I must be dreaming.

Isn't Feldman the very man who wrote a long, bitter, and rather shameful article in the Sunday New York Times magazine in which he excoriated his own Orthodox Jewish brethren for (accidentally, as it turns out), not including a photo of himself together with his non-Jewish, non-Orthodox, non-convert wife at a class reunion?

Oh, how he carried on about the hard-hearted prejudices of Orthodox Jews (some of whom also wear head coverings). And yet, here he is suggesting that an Islamic religious symbol–a head covering–might be the key to a liberal democracy and, as such, might also render Turkey a worthy entrant into the European Union.

Turkey–but not Israel.

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