The face veil pre-dates Islam

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Well, if the veil pre-dates Islam, then Johnson isn't being anti-Muslim, he's being anti-Arab.

And I really, REALLY doubt the claim that many Muslim women go veiled because 'they want to appear modest'.  I think it's much more likely that they go veiled because their patriarchal society is mind-wobblingly insecure.

Boru

And if they don't go veiled they'll be stoned.

Again, patriarchal insecurity:  'If people see my wife's face, she'll sleep with them, so I'd better kill her now to save her the shame.'

Boru