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Is It Safe For A Muslim Woman To Wear The Hijab In America?

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Burqa, American Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Hate Crimes, Hijab, Shaima Alawadi, Trayvon Martin, Niqab, Honor Killing, Islam, Video, Religion News
Jacques Berlinerblau

What is it like for a Muslim-American woman to wear a hijab in public? Does this particular religious attire render its wearers vulnerable to verbal and physical violence?

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Australian Law Requires Women To Remove Muslim Face Coverings

AP | By ROD McGUIRK | Posted 03.06.2012

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CANBERRA, Australia -- Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under t...

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Liberation Through Assimilation: Burqa Ban Comes To Canada

Sonny Singh | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: French Turban Ban, Religious Freedom, Ethnocentrism, Islamophobia, Burqa, National Identity, Sikhism, Canada Burqa Ban, Jason Kenney, Niqab Ban, French Burqa Ban, Sikhs and Muslims, Religious Garb, Racism, Niqab, Burqa Ban, Assimilation, Islam, Religion News
Sonny Singh

This isn't about whether we think wearing burqas or niqabs is a good idea or not. The issue is whether a government should be able to impose its notion of national identity on its citizens

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Does The French Law Forbidding Full-Face Veils Cover Up the Real Problem?

Nancy Graham Holm | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: France, Burqa-Niqab, European Islamophobia, Nicolas Sarkozy, Kenza Drider, Islamophobia, Women's Rights, Education, Debate, Hijab, France Burqas, Niqab, Women News
Nancy Graham Holm

What we need are public policies and personal practices that bridge gaps instead of creating them.

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The Next Country To Ban The Burqa?

AP | Posted 10.02.2011

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ROME -- An Italian parliamentary commission on Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The dr...

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Controversial Law Would Make Muslim Women Remove Veils

AP | By ROD McGUIRK | Posted 09.09.2011

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CANBERRA, Australia -- Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new ...

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Muslims Gain Freedom In Middle East, Lose It In Europe

Fahad Faruqui | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: France, Islamophobia, Islam, Women's Issues, Terrorism, Niqab, Islamic Veil, French Veil Ban, Freeedom of Religion, Geert Wilders, French Burqa Ban, Niqabitches, Religion News
Fahad Faruqui

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has approved a law that "benefits" more or less 2,000 burqa-clad women, who were subjected to patriarchal oppression. Much to my surprise, the law is being rigidly enforced.

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Judging A (Holy) Book By Its Cover: Personal Appearance and Faith

Jalees Rehman, M.D. | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Religion, Islam, Health Care, Religion News, Hijab, Muslims, Muslim Americans, Niqab, Faith, Health Care Reform, Latin, Twitter, Philosophy, Religion News
Jalees Rehman, M.D.

While the Quran does not directly link piety with having a beard, many Muslim communities have developed a vague expectation that pious or devout Muslim men ought to have beards.

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Demystifying the Burqa

Harris Zafar | Posted 06.18.2011

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Harris Zafar

All eyes are on France this week, as their ban of Islamic veils went into effect on Monday. Extremists on opposite sides of this debate have engaged in a virtual tug-of-war, and Muslim women are the rope.

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First Woman Ticketed For Violating French Burqa Ban

AP | By ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.12.2011

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PARIS -- A woman has been ticketed in a suburban Paris shopping center for wearing a face veil, in the first reported sanction under a new ban on the ...

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Two Women Detained As France's Islamic Veiling Ban Kicks In

AP | By CAMILLE RUSTICI | Posted 06.11.2011

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PARIS -- France's new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris' Notre Dam...

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Muslim Women Face Choices As France's Veil Ban Looms

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Burqa, Islam, France, Hijab, Veil Ban, Niqab, French Muslims, Nicolas Sarkozy, Muslim Veils, Religion News

TRAPPES, France — Karima has a plan. If police stop her for wearing a veil over her face, she'll remove it – then put it back on once they...

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Know Your Veils: A Guide To Middle Eastern Head Coverings (PHOTOS)

Anne Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne Peterson

Next time you are having dinner with a Bahraini dignitary, don't embarrass yourself by confusing the Queen's abaya with a burqa.

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WATCH: Powerful Afghan Show Lets Muslim Women Speak Against Abuse

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslim Women, Sexual Abuse, Niqab, Abuse, Afghan Women's Rights, The Mask, Muslim Veil, Rape, Muslims, Burka, Physical Assault, Incest, Afghanistan, Sexual Assault, Islamic Veil, Afghan Women, Muslim Women's Rights, Video, World News

A new Afghan television program is hoping to provide a forum for local women to speak out against widespread abuse, rape and other issues, CNN is repo...

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Woman Charged For ATTACKING Veiled Woman In France

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — A Paris court handed a French retiree a one-month suspended sentence Thursday for attacking a Middle Eastern woman who was wearing a fac...

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What Not To Wear: Dictating Islamic Fashion In France

Todd Green, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Green, Ph.D.

The burqa ban is really less about preserving women's freedom and more about the underlying discomfort that many in France have over the growth of Islam and the increasing assertion of Muslim identity in the public sphere.

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Why Single Out Muslim Women?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Syria, Women's Rights, Islam, Quakerism, Judaism, Hijab, Womens Issues, Racism, Hare-Krishnas, Niqab, Anti-Muslim Bias, Buddhism, Freedom of Religion, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

We are all too ready to conflate religious fundamentalism with terrorism where Muslims are concerned, though we don't do so nearly as much when it comes to other faiths.

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Burqa Bans From an American Muslim's Perspective

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Banning and denigrating a cultural tradition simply divides communities and engenders anger and resentment in a way that is not constructive toward building a multicultural society.

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France Veil Ban To Be Submitted By Sarkozy

AP | SYLVIE CORBET | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that hide the face in ...

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I See Belgium, I See France: I See the Burqa's Last Dance

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shirin Sadeghi

For some governments, banning burqas about placing a legal element of moderation on public dress. Worldwide today, total nudity is usually illegal, these governments are simply saying that the other extreme is also not acceptable.

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Poetic Justice in a Pint Sized Pistol: Hissa Hillal, Live! from The Land of Invisible Women

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

This is why Hissa Hillal's poetry is such a colossal cultural moment: not merely because one Saudi woman has had the courage to speak out, but because of the cascading, tumultuous conversation this will certainly uncork. Like a gathering storm, a cloudburst of cultural rebellion is mounting.

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Europe's Great Cover Up!

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burqa, Muslims, Arabs, Niqab, Immigration, Ban, Europe, Politics News
William Fisher

France is now poised to enact legislation making it illegal to wear the burqa (full body covering) and the niqab (face veil). And a growing number of ...

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Don't Ban the Burqa, Just Shun Its Use

Alex Wilhelm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Wilhelm

At the risk of estranging my humanist and feminist friends and readers, I have to stand against the banning of the burqa not just out of respect for liberty, but also for the second reason: it could hurt women more than help them.

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Ambassador Discovers Bride Is Bearded, Cross-Eyed Behind Veil

Posted 05.25.2011

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An Arab ambassador in Dubai has had his marriage annulled after discovering that his bride, behind her veil, was bearded and cross-eyed. The couple h...

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Man Denied French Citizenship Because Wife Wears Veil

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Moroccan man has been denied French citizenship because he demanded his French wife wear a full-face Islamic veil, Reuters reports. "It emerged d...

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