Indiana store manager kicks out Muslim woman over head scarf — then wishes her ‘a blessed day’

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15. I've always been skeptical of that.

First and foremost because I think it is difficult to get an honest answer out of people when religious police you can't identify by sight are tooling around the neighborhood looking for reasons to arrest people. Second, because those women who do defend the niqab usually do so within the parameters of sexist traditional Islamic gender roles.

I've always found the most insidious quality of systemic privilege is its ability to infect all social strata. The privileged will be blind to their privilege, and the non-privileged will defend the status quo because they've been indoctrinated to believe it is the normative state of things.