Daniel Pipes: Ten Percent of Muslims Call for Niqabs or Burqas

The following by Daniel Pipes is reposted here with permission:

Ten Percent of Muslims Call for Niqabs or Burqas

by http://www.nationalreview.com/node/368203/print
January 11, 2014
Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/01/ten-percent-of-muslims-call-for-niqabs-or-burqas

A survey conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Pakistan) finds that a median of 10 percent of the respondents prefer women to wear either a niqab or burqa when in public. The specific country figures range enormously, from 74 percent approval of these two garments in Saudi Arabia and 35 percent in Pakistan to 3 percent in Lebanon and Tunisia and just 2 percent in Turkey.