by Hebah Ahmed
-USA-

This article originally appeared on Silent Heroes, Invisible Bridges, an Istanbul-based not-for-profit media organization that promotes peaceful co-existence amongst nations, cultures, and religions. WIP Contributor Alia Turki Al-Rabeo is a founding member of the website which offers exclusive content in English, Arabic, Turkish and Urdu languages. By republishing Hebah’s opinion piece, we support Silent Heroes’ objective to add healthy debate and discourse about hurdles in cross-cultural, cross-religion integration such as the niqab ban in France. – Ed.