Mohamed Saleh, dean of the Faculty of Dar el-Uloom, said the university had decided to apply the decision banning the niqab literally. He pointed out that the university prohibits girls from wearing ...

Officials at cairo university point to potential security threats Calls for promoting 'correct understanding of religion' Cairo: Egyptian authorities have stepped up a controversial campaign against ...

The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

OTTAWA -- The campaign firestorm over women who wear the niqab flared up in Stephen Harper's face Friday as his Liberal rival tried to turn the Conservative leader's wedge issue against him with a ...

Anti-burka protesters in Australia have attempted to enter Parliament wearing a Ku Klux Klan mask, a niqab and a motorcycle helmet. Sergio Redegalli, Nick Folkes and Victor Waterson - part of the ...

David Butt is a Toronto-based criminal lawyer. A chubby three-year-old was playing on his well-manicured front lawn in a small Ontario town in the early 1960s. Two nuns, in traditional religious ...

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France’s niqab ban violates the human rights of Muslim women and risks “confining them to their homes,” the United Nations Human Rights Committee said Tuesday. The committee said two women fined for ...

Last week I blogged on a very modern multicultural dilemma at Blackfriars Crown Court - where a judge had to rule on whether a defendant could appear in the dock wearing a niqab, a type of Muslim veil ...

Several European countries have banned - or intend to ban - the wearing of the niqab in public Two French Muslim women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a new law banning it in ...

Cairo: Egyptian authorities have stepped up a controversial campaign against the niqab with a ban on the full-face veil at the prestigious Al Azhar University and the dormitories of Cairo University, ...