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French government decision on ban on burqa comes as no surprise as it was in the cards for some time. French constitution has given the concept of liberty, equality and fraternity to the worlds. Many governments were inspired by the French...
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Kudos to Rayana Khazi, a young girl in Kasargode district in Kerala who is ploughing a lonely furrow against the Muslim religious fundamentalists over wearing the burqa...
made popular Sep 23 2010
“The terrorist threat is real and today our vigilance, therefore, is reinforced,” French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said today.
In the recent past,...
made popular Sep 21 2010
The anti-burqa law in France has overcome one last hurdle and should become law next year, barring any opposition by the courts. The lower house already voted for the...
made popular Sep 15 2010
BRITISH academic and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins has angered Muslim groups by comparing the burqa to a trash bag.
The 69-year-old author referred to the burqa as...
made popular Aug 11 2010
Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes — taking aim at...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Even as the burqa controversy triggered by France refuses to die down, I am of the view that India should also follow the footsteps of France, which is home to...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Spain’s government plans to ban the use of the Islamic burqa in public places under a proposed new law on religious freedom, the justice minister said...
made popular Jul 19 2010
France’s lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public.
There were 335 votes for the bill...
made popular Jul 14 2010
Spain’s government on Tuesday said it favors barring the use of burqas in government buildings, joining other European countries considering similar moves on the...
made popular Jun 16 2010
News from Poland about re-burial of Nicolas Copernicus (Nikolay Copernik), the greatest astronomer of the last two millenniums, triggered some thoughts inevitably.
It...
made popular May 24 2010
If women continue to insist on wearing burqas and niqabs they’re going to have to put up with profiling and suffer the consequences, whether they like it or not....
made popular May 21 2010
I was wondering how soon after the Belgium burqa ban the violent threats would start rolling in, and it appears not too very long. In spite of the fact that it’s...
made popular May 8 2010
There are anti-terrorist laws in Italy that were enacted in the 1970s that prohibit people from not being identifiable in public. Enforced back in the day when they...
made popular May 6 2010
Belgium’s lower house of parliament on Thursday banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public, but the measure faces a challenge in the Senate which will delay early...
made popular May 3 2010
The world has been wondering which country would be the first to ban the full Islamic veil in Europe. France has been threatening to do it for a long while, in spite of...
made popular Apr 30 2010
Philip Hollobone, a Tory MP, doesn’t like burqas. I think most people in the civilized world, other than the uber religious and culturally conservative female...
made popular Mar 24 2010
Apparently 2 men wearing burqas robbed a postal office south of Paris, France, after they were allowed to pass through security unchecked. One can only assume they were...
made popular Feb 8 2010
France is a secular country and President Sarkozy said that veils are not welcome in France as they as they intimidate and alienate non Muslims.
So any woman who is...
made popular Jan 8 2010
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It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates.
Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...
made popular Dec 16 2009
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...
made popular Nov 28 2009
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...
made popular Oct 9 2009
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...
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