MECO IN THE MEDIA

MECO has produced a full page (~600 word) article about Muslim women being forced to wear the niqab by tracing the historical roots for this patriarchal and un-Qur'anic custom. This was published in The Daily Telegraph on 7 February 2007.
Click here to read the full text.

MECO's stand was also praised in the Daily Telegraph and in the Guardian Education supplement on 6 February 2007.
Click here to read the article by Christine Odone from The Daily Telegraph's own web site
Click here to read the article by James Orr from The Guardian's own web site

MECO also featured in a story in the Times, 9 February 2007. Click here to read the article.

MECO's representative was also invited to appear on Radio 4's today programme on 7 February,
on the Jeremy Vine Show on Radio 2 on 8 February 2007, on Radio 5 Live on 7 February,
on the James Whale Show on TalkSport Radio on 7 February.
All this was followed up by an extensive TV interview on BBC South (Oxford) on 8 February 2007.