Quebec’s Law on Facial Veils Fuels Fierce Debate

MONTREAL—As a Muslim teenager in her native Tunisia, Nadia El-Mabrouk never once saw a woman wearing a full-face veil. After moving to Canada, she was shocked to see her first one on the streets of Montreal. Now the University of Montreal computer-science professor is one of many Quebec residents backing a provincial government ban on the Islamic face covering, called a niqab. “It’s a walking prison,” she said. -- More...