"Leila Ahmed" is an Egyptian American writer on Islam and Islamic feminism as well as being the first women's studies professor at Harvard Divinity School. Ahmed was the recipient of the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her analysis of the 'veiling' of Muslim women in the United States.

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It's a comment on our society, on the fragmentation of American family life. We have to bear that this is happening in America, where there is freedom of choice. These women are not converting in order to go and live in Saudi Arabia. We also don't know how permanent these conversions are in a country where people convert two or three times in their lives.

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After years of secularism we're introducing Islam in a new way into the constitution, ... The only other country in which they did this was Iran, and women's rights were thrown out there. It's a tragedy what we're seeing.

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