Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK, uttered the following warning regarding Jack Straw’s recent request to Muslim women to unveil themselves when conducting business in his constituency:

“All the recent evidence shows that we are, as a society, becoming more socially polarised by race and faith. The only place where this may not be true is in our schools and the main reason is that in many of our cities things cannot get any worse.
“The so-called Muslim leaders who initially attacked Straw were wrong. They were overly defensive and need to accept that in a diverse society we should be free to make polite requests of this kind.”
“On one side of the trenches we have those who want a fully fledged auto-da-fe (burning of a heretic) against British Muslims in which anything any Muslim does or says must be condemned as a signal of their willful alienation and separation. On the other hand the defensiveness of some in the Muslim communities has hardened into a sensitivity that turns the most neutral of comments into yet another act of persecution.
“This is not what anyone intended and it is the last thing Britain needs.”

This is what a country gets when they allow a group of people who do not fully assimilate into their new society. There are Muslims here in Arizona, and so far, I have not seen any Muslim women with the full veil. Chadors, yes, veils, no. I am concerned that it is only a matter of time until we see the veil here.