Daily Archive: September 21, 2011

Minister Donner as Mufti: New developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’ 7

Minister Donner as Mufti: New developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’

On Friday 16 September the Dutch Council of Ministers agreed to prohibit covering the face in public space. In this blog Annelies Moors explains the new developments in the Dutch ‘burqa debates’. She argues that the arguments used by the government and politicians in favor of the ban are highly ambivalent and ambiguous and that with the new proposal Minister Donner almost acts as a mufti in declaring what is Islamic and what is not.