For all those politically correct folks who wonder whether it’s OK to ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil, consider this headline in Pakistan’s The Daily Times: “Al-Azhar Plans to Ban Face Veil.” Yes, indeed, the news spreading through the Muslim world is this: Al-Azhar University, the Harvard of Islamic theology in mainstream Sunni Muslim circles, is planning to ban its female students from covering their faces with the face veil, commonly called the niqab.