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Maroon Rafique: Mother is turned away from parents' evening because she refused to remove full-face veil
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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24 June 2012 A mother was turned away from a school parents' evening because she refused to remove her full-face veil. Maroon Rafique, 40, was told that for the security and safety of children and teachers at the college there was a ban on any type
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UK won't ban Islamic face cover
London, April 11, United Kingdom Home Secretary Theresa Mary has firmly ruled out the banning of Islamic veil in public in Britain, The Independent reported today. British Ministers
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Syria's debate over face veil ban
Aleppo :: Syria | over 2 years ago
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The secular authorities have excluded hardline religious figures from teaching in mosques and banned the full-face veil in university classrooms. As Lina Sinjab reports the ban on the face veil has sparked debate within the country about whether the
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"To enforce on women what to wear and what not to ...
Paris :: France | over 2 years ago
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The Doha Debates yesterday resoundingly rejected the French government's controversial ban on face veil, in a session that saw a fiery discussion and an unusually high turn out. The motion, This house believes France is right to ban the face veil was
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Islamic face veil called 'way of life'
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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The Islamic face veil is part of the "British way of life" and should be recognized as such, a think-tank report says. Politicians in France and Belgium have voted in favor of banning the full veil, but a report by the Civitas think tank said the
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French veil ban gets a beating at debates
Doha :: Qatar | over 2 years ago
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The Doha Debates yesterday resoundingly rejected the French government's controversial ban on face veil, in a session that saw a fiery discussion and an unusually high turn out. The motion, This house believes France is right to ban the face veil was
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Veiled in Secrecy: Religious Observance or Cultural Apartheid?
Barcelona :: Spain | almost 3 years ago
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Western societies considering banning the Muslim niqab or burqathe women's head veil or body covering (see footnote) is, as we say in England, about as easy as sewing cheese. The major problem is that hardly anyone appears to articulate the core
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Niqab debate unveils Syria's secular past
Damascus :: Syria | almost 3 years ago
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Syria was abuzz last week when unconfirmed reports surfaced in international media that the minister of higher education had instructed universities to prevent women wearing the niqab (face veil) from entering campuses. Apart from raising eyebrows in
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Face veil ban
Aleppo :: Syria | almost 3 years ago
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This refers to the story, Syria bans face veils at universities (July 20). The Syrian ban will take the sting out of this being branded as anti-Islamic or Islamophobia. The proponents of niqab are trying to put personal rights above society's
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Hysteria and the veil
London :: United Kingdom | almost 3 years ago
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Soon after France's National Assembly passed a law making it illegal to wear a full-face veil in public, British MP Philip Hollobone announced a private member's bill last weekend that would make it illegal for people to cover their faces in public
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