Comment: The Swiss ban on the burqa and ski masks is a handy catchall policy that stirs up Islamophobic sentiment and targets protesters all at once, writes Malia Bouattia. Muslim women in Switzerland were recently reminded that the occasion of International Women's Day was - once again - not going to be celebratory for them, when voters passed a ban on full face coverings in public places. In other words, a burqa ban. The proposal scraped through in a Swiss referendum on Sunday March 7, with 51.21 percent, amounting to some 1,426,992 people. Switzerland has joined the growing list of European countries adopting an outright or partial ban of the face veil. Belgium, Italy, Bulgaria, N
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