LONDON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Britain's race-relations watchdog has warned that violence could erupt over disagreements on whether Muslim women should wear veils in the country.
The Sunday Telegraph reported Trevor Philips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, said that the heated debate has created divisions that could produce riots worse than those in the north of England five years ago.
"All the recent evidence shows that we are, as a society, becoming more socially polarized by race and faith. The only place where this may not be true is in our schools, and the main reason is that in many of our cities things cannot get any worse," Philips wrote in an article for The Sunday Times.
The telegraph reported that Philips wrote the Times article as a call for a "civilized" debate about race.
