Thanks for your web links. Once again these stories inform us that legislating dress code is not a measure to convert. Whatever the political reasons the govt seeks to enforce conformity, converting people from one religion to another is not the objective nor achievable. Unless of course a Goan professor makes such claims and others parrot it, again and again, which like so many other opinions of yester-year that masquerade as facts.
Regards, GL ----------------- Agnelo Pinheiro wrote: wearing the niqab the *full Islamic veil* that reveals only a woman's eyes taking aim at a garment many see as political. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_islamic_veils http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10684359 http://www.anorak.co.uk/254149/media/syria-bans-the-fashion-forward-burqa-as-britain-embraces-muslim-punk.html * * * Read Selma Carvalho's warmly-received book *Into the Diaspora Wilderness*, a journey through Goan life in Africa, the Gulf, England and North America ... gripping and well-told real-life stories. See http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ Buy in Goa via Broadway Book Centre, Panjim. Ph 9822488564. * * *
