I insist: you are a veil!

In the middle of a very unfunny article, I found the following:

Many Somalis were unhappy with the more extreme rules of the Islamic Courts: closing down the cinemas, banning music and insisting women were veils.

That is pretty extreme.

(Note: even with the correct spelling, the sentence is ambiguous. It could mean `they insist that it is true that women wear veils.' But I probably wouldn't have noticed this ambiguity without the typo.)