PARIS (Reuters) - France will issue recommendations against full face veils but not pass a law barring Muslim women from wearing them, a leading backe...
AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style
By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer KARACHI, Pakistan — Some women strode the catwalk in vicious spiked bracelets and body armor. Others...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared earlier this year that the Islamic burqa was a symbol of subservience. In other incidents, two women were ba...
Freedom House | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
Verbally attacking women and banning them from public places is not the right path for France to choose. These actions only serve to further isolate Muslim women from society.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2009 | World
A Paris swimming pool has refused to allow a young Muslim woman to swim after she tried to enter while wearing a burqini, a full body covering that re...
Hisham Wyne | Posted 08.25.2009 | World
My personal likes and dislikes do not offer a sufficient raison de'etre to unveil anyone. And neither do yours.
Luxist.com | Kristin Young | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style
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...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.09.2009 | World
"What does Sarkozy think? Outlawing burqas is going to make these women walk outside in a sundress?" asked one social worker. "They just won't leave home as often. He is sentencing them to prison!"
Reuters | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Nehmatullah Yusefy's burqa sales have dropped 50 percent since the Taliban were toppled in 2001 and he says he will soon need to start stocking other ...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
Muslim women in burqas are not being "protected"; they are being marginalized.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Following an imbroglio in France in late June when President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the burqa to be unwelcome and against French values, al Qaeda is...
LabourList | Posted 07.28.2009 | World
There are hundreds of points of action that feminists across Europe would prioritize above banning the burqa, were anyone to actually ask us.
Berit Anderson | Posted 07.27.2009 | World
Sarkozy is sending the message to the French public that a person cannot simultaneously be a French citizen and a conservative Muslim.
Gioia Diliberto | Posted 07.27.2009 | Style
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.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Imagine what would happen if a top fashion model walked down the runway in a Hermes-designed burka, or if Muslim women could vie for the latest French designs of their hijab?
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Could the traditional burqa-clad woman and the modern Western exotic dancer be two sides of the same coin?
Sabria Jawhar | Posted 07.26.2009 | World
Muslim women locked in a tyrannical chokehold by Muslim men can rest easy. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is ready to rescue us.
Ahmed Rehab | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
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?
AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
PARIS — A top Muslim group in Britain lashed out at Nicolas Sarkozy as "patronizing and offensive" on Tuesday, after the French president said b...
AP | JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 07.23.2009 | World
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy declared Monday that the Islamic burqa is not welcome in France, branding the face-covering, body-length gown ...
AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
PARIS — France wants to study the small but growing trend of burqa wear, with an eye to possibly banning the Islamic garment from being worn in ...
The Independent | Kim Sengupta and Jerome Starkey | Posted 05.03.2009 | World
The Taliban, whose extreme interpretation of Sharia law and its harsh punishments made Afghanistan one of world's most repressive and reviled regimes,...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 04.30.2009 | Style
If you see a woman in Cairo with her hair uncovered, she is either Christian, a tourist, or very, very brave.
Heidi Kingstone | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
With Michelle Obama's arms being so much in the news, it's hard to imagine that most Afghani women remain entombed in their stifling burkas.
Reuters | Posted 11.13.2009 | World