Liberal Muslim Group Will Help Fund British School's Battle Against Niqab

As previously reported, in Britain's Buckinghamshire County a public school has banned a 12-year old Muslim girl from wearing her niqab (full face veil) to classes. However, the County's Council refused to pay for the school's litigation costs to defend its decision after it was sued by the girl's father. Now the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford (Meco)-- a liberal Muslim group-- has offered to contribute toward the school's legal costs. This Is London yesterday reported that Meco's chairman, Taj Hargey, said in his letter to the school: "We trust that you will continue to resist any move to implement this kind of minority ethnic obsession, which has no foundation whatsoever in Islamic law.... It is high time that moderate progressive Muslims tackle extremists on their own theological grounds."