If you look at the ongoing debate on Muslim women wearing veils with fresh eyes, there isn’t any evidence of where it all started. Jack Straw is no longer at the centre of this debate. His comment in his column in the Lancashire Telegraph; then published later in The Guardian, caused huge controversy and questioning about his authority in the matter. The column itself is a well-balanced, sensible approach to something that is seen by many, as an undesirable subject to bring up in public. His comments, although seen as intrusive into Muslim women’s rights by the more hot-headed members of society, are exactly what were required to start a debate on this issue and the wider ones of integration into British society.
My admiration of Jack Straw increased by a factor of two when reading what he had written and not what it was spun to represent. The narrative and reasoning are clear and his position is not compromised by his actions. It is my belief that his support among liberal members of society increased as mine has. He has shown in the column that under the veneer attached to him by attacks from the press in the past, he is a very intelligent and reasoning individual and in my opinion has shown himself as someone that Blackburn should be very proud to have as their representative. I would hope that in the near future the debate of whether he was right or not can end and the debate on the true issue is begun in earnest.
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