By Timothy Garton Ash for <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/07/opinion/la-oe-gartonash-burka-20110407"target="_blank"> Los Angeles Times</a>
Timothy Garton Ash [1] is a contributing editor to Opinion at the Los Angeles Times. He is professor of European studies at Oxford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.