She's not obligated to show it to you or anyone. Her job is to excel in her studies not placate senile sycophants pretending to be scholars, or retarded British racists like yourself. Take a hike.

These are all the way we understand the revelation anyway. Many of the counter points are clear. We understand that the ulema have differing and constantly evolving positions. But most importantly, face covered or not, noone has transgressed the limits as we understand them.

This is not about the niqaab. Its about a scholar impeding on societies right to practice the deen within its limits and undermining some very fundamental Islamic and Human rights. Its about a mufti becoming public morality/cultural police and that’s unacceptable.

As for the outrage, I’m always a troubled by the double standard of muslim moral outrage. Muslim women around the world are suffering far worse humiliations and very little outrage is expressed. This girl removed her veil. Sisters are being murdered, denied education and work. Murderers are slipping by the wayside because of manipulations of fiqh and the culture of honour killing, and not even a shout. And there are opinions in the madhab that defend the father that kills his children.

The next verse discusses the threats Muslims faced when living amongst those who wish to bring harm to the Muslim communities. You used: “to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies “

Veils did exist pre-Islam, yet the verse properly translated from the time it was revealed would correctly mean “lengthen outer garments” and not “draw ..cloaks…”.

This is the honest translation minus the Pagan/Hindu and Arab supremacism: O Prophet, Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women that they should lengthen their outer garments over their persons(when abroad): in most convenient, recognisable manner and not molested.

So how is walking around with a gothic tent “convenient” or “recognisable”?

Islam began as an open source faith, yet such attitudes and misrepresentations have turned it into a dark art. We should encourage transparency and professionalism rather than hiding behind veils made in China.

I am pretty peed off with both sides, nor do I ask those under my right hand to wear such cloths to feel “complete” or mock those who choose to wear such cloths. Please stick to the spirit of Islam only.

[Quran 033:059] O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allâh is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Allah will not show favours to one just for “believing” but also for righteousness. Hence, mother Teresa has a much better chance of being amongst the best of people than a Muslim taking part in the culling or humiliations of people he/she assumes not to be serving his/her interests. Neither is a Muslim that who enjoys a middle class existence in Saudi Arabia who chooses to go abroad and bring misery to dirt poor Muslims in countries such as Afghanistan.

Was it not an Egyptian Mullah who once said black women need not wear hijab as their kinky hairs was deemed unattractive in the eyes of an Arab colonialist?