THE Muslim teacher who will deliver Channel 4’s “alternative” Christmas Day speech says she wears a veil in class so her pupils can concentrate on the blackboard and not her.

Khadija Ravat, a lecturer in Islam, insists the niqab head-gear does not divide religious groups.

And instead of making women submissive, she claims that it empowers them to avoid being dominated by fashion and society.

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