Niqab row “has increased veil’s popularity”
BBC NEWS: How veil remarks reinforced its support
How Jack Straw’s comments on his dislike of the niqab (and the idiotic tabloid press campaign which followed it) increased the popularity of the veil among young British Muslim women, with the local Hijab Centre, the biggest local supplier of them, seeing its trade in niqabs more than double and Jack Straw’s popularity plummet among local Muslims.
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