ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the reference to values as they are used in political strife around veiling. It offers a more philosophically inspired reflection on liberalism and value diversity. The book discusses how values are figured in national debates, or institutionalized in legal regulations, so that people are better able to see how these values are used in the debates or instantiated in regulations is in fact a specific interpretation of the liberal tradition or a specific way of solving a case of conflicting cultural values. It discusses how selected countries, namely France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Norway, have understood core liberal values, in order to suggest how people can understand that it is possible that countries can all claim to be bound by the same values and yet institutionalize these in radically different, if not opposite, legislation.
