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Egypt Plans To Ban Full Veils

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, Veil, Niqab, Women in Burkas, Burka, Islam Veil, Women-in-Burkas, Women's Rights, Muslim Women, Muslim Dress, Women's Muslim Dress, World News

Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab....

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Writer Wears Burka For One Week: "It Felt Like A Prison"

Daily Mail | Liz Jones | Posted 09.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Islam, Liz Jones, One Week, Woman, Opinion, Burka, Muslim, Style News

Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, ho...

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Middle Eastern-Inspired Fashion Raises Some Eyebrows

Luxist.com | Kristin Young | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Burqa, Middle East Burka, Middle East Fashion, Burka, Nicolas Sarkozy Burka, Givenchy Haute Couture, Middle East Inspired Fashion, Style News

Even as the great veil debate raged on this month in France - President Nicolas Sarkozy supports a ban on Muslim women wearing them in public- Paris c...

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Muslim Chic

Gioia Diliberto | Posted 07.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Burqa, Religion, Chadors, Style, Hijab, Muslims, Sarkozy Burqa, Women in Burkas, Fashion, Burka, Nicolas Sarkozy, Style News
Gioia Diliberto

Westerners often assume that Muslim women would get rid of their head scarves if given a chance. It must be a husband or father who forces them to cover up. That's a serious misconception.

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Mini Skirts, Yes. Burqas, No?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Sarkozy Burqa, Religious Rights, France Burqas, Nicolas Sarkozy, Women in Burkas, Burka, World News
Deepak Chopra

A secular society has no business making decisions based on religion, and that means in either direction. If God is neutral toward the mini skirt, he is neutral toward the burqa.

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Sarkozy is Not Welcome in a Burka

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Burqa, Islam, France, France Burqas, Muslims, Niqab, Taliban, Burka, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News
Ahmed Rehab

Is there a real difference between France or Turkey forcing women to remove their veils, and Saudi Arabia or Iran forcing them to keep them on?

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What Shariah Law Is All About

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim, Sharia Law, Cordoba Initiative, Islam, Burka, Islamic Radicalism, Sharia, World News
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

Rather than fear Shariah law, we should understand what it actually is. Then we can encourage Muslim countries to make the changes that achieve the essence of fairness and justice at the root of Islam.

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Taliban Easing Beard, Burqa And Bollywood Rules

The Independent | Kim Sengupta and Jerome Starkey | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan Taliban, Taliban Beard, Taliban, Burka, Taliban Afghanistan, Taliban Pakistan, Karzai Taliban, Taliban Karzai, Afghan Taliban, Taliban Burka, Advocacy, Burqa, Taliban Burqa, Punishments in Afghanistan, World News

The Taliban, whose extreme interpretation of Sharia law and its harsh punishments made Afghanistan one of world's most repressive and reviled regimes,...

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Egyptian Women: Image vs. Reality

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 04.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Egypt Women, Muslim Headscarf, Hijab, Cairo Media, Egyptian Women, Egypt Burqa, Media, Burka, Burqua, Burqa, Egyptian Media, Muslim Women Scarves, Cairo, Egypt, Muslim Woman Headscarf, Cairo Headscarf, Egyptian Woman Head Scarf, Cairo-Egypt, Style News
Marlene H. Phillips

If you see a woman in Cairo with her hair uncovered, she is either Christian, a tourist, or very, very brave.

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