No, Jack Straw is not islamophobic! The veil excludes women from society

EDITO - If the war on Iraq was the worst idea ever to establish peace and democracy, the niqab (large veil covering the face too) is definitely the worst mean to integrate Muslim women into Western European societies.

And if it is indeed unfortunate that Jack Straw did not dare denounce the first lie (about the war on Iraq), it does not mean that he should not been supported for telling now a useful truth to British society: the niqab indeed prevents women’s integration (and simultaneously increases xenophobic feelings among mainstream population by making those women and their beliefs even more alien to the society they live into).
 
From Germany to France, Jack Straw’s finding is already a well known fact and has been handled with no serious difficulty. The main reason is that besides a few extremists, Muslim women do not dream of being 'jailed' within their own clothes.
 
The question now for UK is to know whether it will be able to get out of the intellectual ghetto where political correctness has trapped it for at least one decade and which can be summarized this way:
- a good leftist mindset should be: pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli, pro-multiculturalism, pro-minority (whatever they are or ask for), anti-American and a bit pro-European
- a good rightist mindset should be : pro-Israeli, anti-terrorist (especially from Muslim origin), pro-multiculturalism, pro-minority but nationalist too (understands who can), Americanist and very much anti-European.
 
The problem is that British society is moving in a complete different direction. Its 'multiculturalism' is in pieces (if it ever existed) as shown by all recent surveys[1] indicating that the British Muslim population shares the same convictions regarding Western values as Muslim populations from the Middle East (while on continental Europe they share the same opinions as the people of their own country, the European country they live into).
 
British elites are totally colonized by US interests and values; and since the Iraq war, the country has lost any international visibility worldwide, being now taken for a mere subsidiary of Washington Inc. Britishness is becoming a key asset for xenophobic political movements which are getting an increasing popular support. And the negative fallout of the Iraq war, together with Blair’s belief that there is such a thing as a ‘war on terror’, obliges British authorities to constantly use double standards speeches: pretending to be very opened to Islam whatever form it takes, while pursuing a very aggressive anti Muslim activists policy.