Aljazeera's Opposite Direction

It featured an Egyptian state police propagandist/journalist against a religious fanatic from Syria, and the topic was the Niqab controversy. Egyptian propagandists are usually quite effective in barking and in expressing themselves in good Arabic. It was hard not to agree with him in speaking out against the Niqab (of course, Egyptian propagandists like him would also be willing to call for the Niqab if Husni Mubarak changed his mind): at one point, he challenged the Syrian guest to call for putting the niqab--if it is obligatory as he was saying--on the first lady of Syria. The Syrian guest was quite flustered at that point. The Syrian religious kook then was talking about ills of life in the West--a favorite topic among fanatics of his ilk--and he was citing "an American book" that I never heard of. He said that 80% of American woman are raped at least once in their life time, and that more than 70% of American women are raped at least twice. I kid you not. He should have been stopped at that point and told that he was spewing lies.