C. Galipeau, a reporter for Canada’s CBC, has responded to
criticism touched off when she began wearing a head scarf during her
broadcasts from the pro-Taliban city of Quetta, Pakistan.
In an
interview with the Toronto Globe and Mail, Galipeau said, “If I
didn’t wear it, I couldn’t work. … I think of it as part of my job,
the same way a man who goes into a synagogue wears a kipa to interview a
rabbi. The bottom line is getting the story.”
The Globe and Mail
said that the CBC had been deluged with calls from angry viewers
after Galipeau donned the head scarf, with many complaining that she was
caving in to Muslim fundamentalists.
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