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One of the most visible, obvious symbols of female oppression is the Burqa. That tent of material women are forced to wear in places like Afghanistan. Covering every ounce of their body, women become non-entities, a piece of walking fabric devoid of...
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Nicolas Sarkozy today voiced sympathy for Switzerland’s controversial decision to ban the building of Muslim minarets, calling on religious practitioners to avoid...
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Are European societies anti-Islam? That’s a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland’s referendum to ban the building of minarets in the...
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European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama’s speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming...
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Alistair Darling has delivered a blunt warning to the EU’s new French finance chief against meddling with the City of London.
As Nicolas Sarkozy gloated over...
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“This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” during a news conference by the former US president, before throwing his shoes at him so had he...
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This is the moment when British-bound migrants hiding in lorries bound for Dover were flushed out in a police swoop.
The two would-be illegal immigrants were among 30...
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Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment...
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Given the Panthéon’s function as the final repose for France’s greatest heroes, it’s perhaps not surprising that efforts are now afoot to relocate...
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Workers are refusing to use the familiar red-and-black devices in anger at Thierry Henry’s cheating, The Sun reports.
Some have even defaced the smiling cartoon...
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The rule banning women from dressing like men – namely by wearing trousers - was first introduced in 1800 by Paris’ police chief and has survived repeated...
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The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...
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Nicolas Sarkozy was last night accused of living in ‘total fantasy’ after claiming he was among the first people to tear down the Berlin Wall.
In an...
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The city of romance got a lesson in love’s hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital’s first divorce fair.
In France, nearly one out...
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Also human life is short, kaleidoscope of history-in-making is so speedy changing that last seventy years accomplished events lasting centuries previously: changing...
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The Conservatives were accused by the French government tonight of “castrating” Britain’s position within the EU by adopting an “autistic”...
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For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed,...
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It has been billed as a quest for the soul of the Gallic nation: a voyage of discovery, with Nicolas Sarkozy at the helm, to discover the je ne sais quoi that makes...
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Bike-sharing programs are gaining momentum throughout Europe and even in car-loving US cities, but vandals and thieves are doing a bang-up job of chipping away at that...
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Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his tenure as Paris mayor, a judicial official...
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France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism.
They include everybody receiving lessons in...
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I recently wrote about how Westerns often overstated the importance of Egypt’s al-Azhar University - the most authoritative voice in Sunni Islam. al-Azhar, which...
made popular Oct 15 2009
Egypt’s Al-Azhar university said Thursday it would ban the niqab or face veil from female classrooms and dormitories, according to AFP.
“The Supreme...
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A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right to wear it is protected by the...
made popular Oct 8 2009
Whatever one may say it is quite fitting that this would take place in Paris.
A veiled Muslim-French woman was refused entry to a Paris swimming pool for wearing a...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Male suicide bombers disguised in womens’ burqas stormed government buildings and security headquarters in co-ordinated attacks which killed a dozen people and...
made popular Jul 22 2009
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi
The Muslim women veil issue in France is gradually taking an ugly shape across the world. The ‘extra’ liberal people possessed with Western...
made popular Jul 9 2009
French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in front of the French parliament that the Islamic face covering - Niqab - [not to be confused with the veil: Hijab] is a...
made popular Jun 25 2009
Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today ... we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing...
made popular Jun 20 2009
France is to make a move to ban veil in public places. It’s aimed at protecting the rights of women forced to efface themselves by covering their bodies entirely....
made popular Jun 19 2009
Muslim extremists have no mercy. They target women and children with no compunction. And as Muslim extremists ratchet up their lust for blood, they’re starting...
made popular Feb 18 2009
In secular France, it is illegal for hotel owners to turn away women wearing Muslim headscarves but OK to ban those wearing head-to-toe burqas from state-sponsored...
made popular Oct 13 2008
While Islamic institutions bind women in a burqa, western values confront concealing of women in it as a ‘prison’, which is not dignified for any living human...
made popular Jul 17 2008
German designer has introduced to the public for the first time a digitally-enabled burqa that can transmit a photo of the wearer to nearby mobile phones. Markus Kison...
made popular Mar 30 2008
The graduation ceremony of Iranian Policewomen demonstrates climbing the walls and other action filled stunts...in Burqa (of course).
a must watch :)
made popular Feb 26 2008
As the night falls, women clad themselves from head to toe and set off to their business towards... the ‘red light areas’. This is not a new scene...
made popular Jul 12 2007
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Palestinian Abdel Munam Sumarin holds a picture of his late grandfather Abdel Latif Sumarin in the cemetery of the West Bank village of Burqa, near Ramallah, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. The transformation of one piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian...
