TIMING IS OF THE ESSENCE: REVIVING THE NEUTRAL LAW OF GENERAL APPLICABILITY STANDARD AND APPLYING IT TO RESTRICTIONS AGAINST RELIGIOUS FACE COVERINGS WORN WHILE TESTIFYING IN COURT.

The article offers a background on the Islamic practice of veiling and its conflict with the legal system and provides an overview of the Free Exercise Clause jurisprudence. It discusses a need to review the Church of Lukumi framework and the relevant Confrontation Clause case law. It cites the need to understand the reason for the veiling practice by Muslim women and the conflicts that have played worldwide. It indicates a strong protection for Muslum women and free exercise rights in general.