In a move that has already been met with a burst of civil defiance, France became the first country to ban Islamic face veils anywhere in public. ...
AP | By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 06.06.2011
CAIRO -- Unlike the armies of Tunisia and Egypt, Syria's military will almost certainly stand by the country's leader as President Bashar Assad faces ...
Anne Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011
Next time you are having dinner with a Bahraini dignitary, don't embarrass yourself by confusing the Queen's abaya with a burqa.
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
A Pakistani comedian's music video send-up of the pop classic "Oh, Pretty Woman" is being slammed in the blogosphere as a mockery of Muslim values. ...
AP | ALBERT AJI and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab – the full Islamic veil that reveals only...
AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — France's lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing burqa-style Islamic veils Tuesday, part of a determined effo...
The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011
Most Western Europeans are in favor of prohibiting Islamic veils known as burqas, but there is little support for laws on face-covering scarves in the...
Posted 06.11.2011