As Spain moves to outlaw the face veil, and the cries of “Islamophobia” inevitably rain down, remember this story and others like it.
“Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Suicide Bombing,” by Maria Abi-Habib and Habib Zahori in the Wall Street Journal, June 22 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
KABUL–An Afghan woman detonated a suicide vest concealed beneath her burka, killing two U.S. soldiers and injuring scores of Afghan civilians in what government officials say is Afghanistan’s first female suicide attack, officials said Tuesday.
The bomb ripped through a checkpoint manned by Afghan and U.S. forces in the province of Kunar, on Afghanistan’s eastern border with Pakistan, at about five o’clock Monday evening. The blast wounded 17 civilians and three policemen in addition to killing the two American soldiers, according Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry….