Madam, – Reading Mary Fitzgerald’s interview with Amna Han (Weekend Review, August 7th) was an eye-opener for me.
Until then, I thought I lived in a country where people judge others on their own individual merits. Now I realise there are women like Amna Han who view me – and all other men she isn’t married or related to – as weak beings who judge women by their bodies and, in turn, can’t control themselves. The only way for Amna Han to counteract the apparently-uncontrollable urges of people like me (men) is to cover themselves up from head to toe.
Amna Han says she’s the person who would be judged by her body. Yet in wearing a niqab in order to tell men “don’t come near me because you aren’t going to get anything from me”, how is she not judging every man she encounters? – Yours, etc,
Madam, – Having chosen to reject Catholicism, not least because of its relegation of women to second-class citizenship, I am appalled at the level of insidious control, by another all-male priesthood, that allows some women to claim (Weekend Review, August 7) that covering their faces in public empowers them. – Yours, etc,