January 2010
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10+1 questions/statements about the hijab
fingularity:
10+1 REAL questions/statements about the hijab I have encountered the past month:-
1) You are too young!
So if I wear the hijab at 22 years old, I am considered ‘too young’ to understand what I am doing, but if I murder someone, I am considered ‘old enough’ to be trialed?
2) Now you cannot wear all the normal clothes people wear!
On the contrary, wearing the hijab has given me...
MY BODY IS MY OWN BUSINESS
fingularity:
realityofmyheart:
By Naheed Mustafa
MULTICULTURAL VOICES: A Canadian-born Muslim woman has taken to wearing the traditional hijab scarf. It tends to make people see her as either a terrorist or a symbol of oppressed womanhood, but she finds the experience LIBERATING.
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The Globe and Mail Tuesday, June 29, 1993 Facts and...
Denmark PM: Burka and niqab have no place here →
COPENHAGEN - The face-covering burka and niqab veils worn by some Muslim women have no place in Denmark, Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said Tuesday, adding his government was considering restricting them.
Rasmussen stopped short, however, of calling for a ban on the veils, noting “legal and other limits”.
“The government’s position is clear: the burka and the niqab...
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Can a Muslim woman wear a burka/niqab while... →
(CNN) — Michigan’s Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing lower state courts to “exercise reasonable control” over the appearance of witnesses and parties, a rule change proposed after a Muslim woman refused to remove an Islamic garment in a small claims court.
A niqab is a garment that covers the entire face and head, except for the eyes.
The order allows...
Full veil not welcome in France, says Sarkozy →
The Guardian, Thursday 14 January 2010
Nicolas Sarkozy last night threw his weight behind moves to ban the full Islamic veil in France, calling for an “unambiguous” parliamentary resolution against an item of clothing he said was “not welcome” in a country which valued sexual equality.
The president, who had shied away from speaking on the issue recently,...
