Niquab or Burqa Controversies

Author: Staff Writer Source: BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11305033 France's Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public. The proposed measure was already backed by the lower house of...

Author: Thanassis Cambanis Source: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/26islamic.html?ref=religion_and… For more than two decades, Abdelhamid Shaari has been lobbying a succession of governments in Milan for permission to...

Author: Staff Writer Source: BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11020700 An Australian judge has ruled that a Muslim woman must remove her full veil while giving evidence before a jury in a fraud case. The judge in Perth said she did...

Author: Nathan Jeffay Source: The Jewish Chronicle http://www.thejc.com/node/36322 Israeli rabbis are set to ban the burka for a small group of radical Jewish women who have taken to wearing it. Two years ago, it emerged that around 100 women in the city...

Author: Nathan Jeffay Source: The Jewish Chronicle http://www.thejc.com/node/36322 Israeli rabbis are set to ban the burka for a small group of radical Jewish women who have taken to wearing it. Two years ago, it emerged that around 100 women in the city...

Author: Ian Sparks Source: The Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296821/Two-Muslim-wo… Two Muslim women were ordered out of a swimming pool...

Author: Ian Sparks Source: The Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1296821/Two-Muslim-wo… Two Muslim women were ordered out of a swimming pool...

Author: Ciaran Giles and Jorge Sainz Source: Beliefnet Wire Service: AP http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/07/spain-parliament-rejects-burqa.p… Spain's Parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban women from wearing in public places Islamic veils...

Author: Albert Aji and Elizabeth Kennedy Source: The Detroit News Wire Service: AP http://www.detnews.com/article/20100720/NATION/7200361/1041/LIFESTYLE04… Syria has forbidden the country's students and...

Author: Ciaran Giles and Jorge Sainz Source: Beliefnet Wire Service: AP http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/07/spain-parliament-rejects-burqa.p… Spain's Parliament on Tuesday rejected a proposal to ban women from wearing in public places Islamic veils...