Thanks to Stuart for noting the anti-semitism angle. I kinda skimmed that section since the vid didn’t work, so that might well have passed me by otherwise. Bill Donohue’s Catholic League seems desperate to push the completely unsubstantiated myth that Pope Pius helped Jews escape from Germany (and rather less interested in considering the much better substantiated view that the Catholic Church actually helped many of the Nazis such as Mengele to escape).

I think Muslims who wear the nikab normally like to think that wearing it makes them less likely to be viewed as a sex object and thus less likely to receive (to use a crude stereotype) whistles from workmen. Of course, it doesn’t rule them out from being considered attractive and the idea that a woman who wears a nikab can have the option of feeling sexy while protected from prying eyes should certainly not be considered provocative. After all, presumably many woman in the nikab may still want to look good for their husband?