The network Violence Is Not Our Culture [1] has protested across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to demand that violence against women not be tolerated in the name of cultural relativism. A founder of the network is Algerian sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas. In an interview conducted by Iranian exiled feminist leader Maryam Namazie, Helie Lucas presents a provocative view of the controversy over the face-veil "ban" in France—an issue which has paradoxically seen Western progressives making common cause with Muslim conservatives, and Western conservatives purporting to act in the name of feminism.
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