The battle over banning burqas and hijabs has been waged at universities outside the United States for years, but now the debate has crossed the Atlantic, with a Massachusetts institution’s newest safety measure.
As of January 1, students at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences must not only wear identification cards but make sure they are not wearing “any head covering that obscures a student’s face,” the policy reads, “for reasons of safety and security.”
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But conservative commentator Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, said he “had no doubt” the policy was linked to the Mehanna case and the college’s newfound sensitivity to a terror threat when he first heard about it in early December. “Michael Ratty says no unequivocally” to the connection, Pipes said, “and of course [the college] can’t admit to it because it opens all sorts of legal issues, but that connection is there.”
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