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Heated debates about Muslim women’s veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political par ties and public intellectuals, and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf tantalizes and causes such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migration and multiculturalism.