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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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Women's Bodies Are Still the Subject of Dispute

Leila Mouri | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Iran, Muslim Women, Hijab, Veil, Iranian Women, Women's Bodies, Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian Actress, Goshifteh Farahani, Iran Actress Naked, World News

The naked photos of Golshifteh Farahani emerged in the moment when Iranian youth are transforming the political and social language of their country, freeing themselves from any state-imposed discourse towards women in their "public" presence.

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6 Women Fined Since April For Violating France's Islamic Veil Ban

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

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PARIS -- France's interior minister says that since a ban on face-covering Islamic veils took effect in April only six women have been convicted and f...

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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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Women and Style in Iran

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Morals Police, Women, Hejab, Chador, Lebanon, Wafaa Suleiman, Beauty, Iranian, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Religion, Veil, Revolutionary Guards, Revolution, Islamic Republic, Randa Berri, Azam Al-Sadat Farahi, Eyebrows, Hijab, World News

Religious women in Iran, whether they wear a chador or not, tend to at least some basic elements of beauty. Ahmadinejad's wife Farahi has belied even that.

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Syria Bans Female Teachers From Wearing Veils

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Koran, Women, Islam, Muslim, Burka, Honor Killing, Veil, Religion News

While much attention is being paid to European countries considering banning the burka, which allows only the eyes of Muslim women to be seen, an Arab country is barring its teachers from wearing them.

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Lies Hebbadj, Muslim Man, Says Mistresses Are The French Way Of Life

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — A Muslim Frenchman at the center of a firestorm over polygamy said Monday that keeping mistresses is the French way of life. The man's ...

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France vs. Burqa: Sarkozy Seeks Full Ban on Burqas

Sonya Rehman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Home to an estimated six million Muslims, the controversial burqa debate in France has been growing over the past five years. This year, a partial ban to be approved by the Parliament was proposed by French lawmakers.

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Woman Wearing Islamic Face Veil While Driving Fined In France

AP | PIERRE-BAPTISTE VANZINI | Posted 05.25.2011

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NANTES, France — A woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil has been fined by French police for not having a clear field of vision. The fine wa...

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Sophisticated 'Sex and the City 2' Takes on the World

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Misogyny, Burqa, Women's Rights, Women, Sex and the City, Sex and the City 2, Politics, Religion, Middle East, Veil, Middle East Politics, Culture, Entertainment News

The reactions to Sex and the City 2 so far have been perfectly predictable. How could it be otherwise in a country that doesn't like to see women age,...

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China, Syria, Censorship

Hussain Abdul-Hussain | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bad news is that, unlike China or even Iran, countries like Syria are tightening their grip and getting away with it, or rather receiving world praise for a presumed effort to achieve peace with Israel.

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

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Persian Gulf, France, Public Dress, Chador, Nudity, Extremist, Veiling, European, England, Public Veiling, Public Nudity, Veil, Niqab, Female Rights, Society, Belgium, Women, Segregate, Neqab, Hijab, Girl, Hejab, Woman, Public, Headscarf, Abaya, Dubai, Burqa, Covering, Girls, Gender Equality, Underwear, Segregation, World News

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

Read More: Arab World, Islam, Hijab, Hissa Hilal, Feminism, Abaya, Poetry, Religion, Veil, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Quran, Niqab, Muslim, Muslim Women, Women in Islam, Arabic Women, Feminism in Islam, Qanta Ahmed, Arabia Poet, Hissa Hillal, Saudi Arabian Poetry, Saudi Woman Poet, Arabic Poet, Saudi, Saudi Arabia Poet, Saudi Poetess Hissa Hillal, Saudi Poetry, Religion News

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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Saudi Female Poet Whose Verse Inflames And Inspires

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is her blistering poetry - recited while dressed in a traditional head-to-toe abaya cloak and broadcast on traditional Arabic television - that is ...

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Should the French Veil Ban Concern the West?

Jehan S. Harney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burqa, Islam, Sharia Law, France, Veil, France Burqas, Sharia, Niqab Ban, Burqa Ban, World News

In order for us to win the battle against radical Islam we must not compromise our values as a result of few militant Muslims' manipulation of religion or use of the burqa and niqab as a cover to commit crimes.

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Muslim Woman Expelled From School In Veil Dispute

pewforum.org | Religion News Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslim Women, Canadian, Human Rights, Montreal, Religion, Muslim, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Religion News

A Muslim woman has filed a human rights complaint after she was expelled from a Canadian college for refusing to remove her face veil....

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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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French Call For Veil Ban In Public Buildings

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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PARIS — A parliamentary panel will recommend on Tuesday that France ban face-covering Muslim veils in public locations such as hospitals and sch...

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A Veiled Movement for Women's Rights Sweeps Iran

Nasim Novin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Majid Tavakoli, Iran Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Veil, Iran Election, Iran, Iran Women's Movement, World News

In an unprecedented show of support for women's rights, Iranian men have posted photos of themselves wearing the head covering typically worn by Muslim women.

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Egypt Plans To Ban Full Veils

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Wailing Over Veiling

Hisham Wyne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burqa, Spotlight on Pakistan, Feminism, Veil, Liberalism, France, France Burqas, Sarkozy Burqa, World News

My personal likes and dislikes do not offer a sufficient raison de'etre to unveil anyone. And neither do yours.

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