Many of those who have not read the Koran (or who have read but misconstrued it) regard the word of God as conveyed to the Prophet Muhammad between 610-632 A.D. as sanctioning such practices as the mandatory wearing of the chador by women, as well as covering the face entirely, in the fashion dictated by [...]
Olivier Besancenot, the postman-turned-revolutionary at the helm of France’s anti-capitalist movement, has been fiercely criticised from all sides of the political spectrum for fielding a headscarf-wearing candidate in forthcoming elections. Ilham Moussaid, a 21-year-old Muslim woman who describes herself as “feminist, secular and veiled”, is running for the far-left New Anti-Capitalist party (NPA) in the [...]
Burqas will be banned in Italy under laws proposed by the government yesterday. Legislation to stop Muslim women wearing the hood and other full-face veils such as the niqab will be introduced, equal opportunities minister Mara Carfagna said. France is already considering outlawing burqas and Miss Carfagna believes other European countries will follow suit. She [...]
Conservative leader David Cameron had to backtrack over a joke he made in an interview with popular gay magazine Attitude. In an hour long interview with the Tory leader, tipped to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, Cameron was questioned about being inclusive of minority groups. Talking about the appearance of Muslim peer Sayeeda Warsi on [...]
COPENHAGEN: Denmark said Thursday it would limit the use in public of the face-covering burka and niqab veils worn by some Muslim women but stopped short of introducing a law banning the garments, AFP reported. Stating the veils had “no place in Danish society,” the centre-right government said it would not enact a general ban [...]
A growing number of young Muslims in the UK are entering marriages that are not legally recognised, BBC Asian Network has found. This is because couples are having an Islamic wedding without the civil ceremony needed for the marriage to be recognised under British law. Shaheeda Khan married her fiance in a traditional Islamic religious [...]
Burkas and other face-covering veils should be banned, says the UK Independence Party. But the Party’s proposals have been criticised by Luton Council of Faiths, which aims to ‘encourage and promote tolerance, respect and mutual understanding among all faiths and cultures’. On the BBC’s Politics Show on Sunday, ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage said burkas were [...]
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday deferred hearing on a plea to prohibit display of photographs of burqa-clad Muslim women in the voters’ list. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma deferred for a fortnight the hearing on the petition and asked petitioner Ajmal Khan, a Madurai resident, [...]
To straighten or not to straighten? Women’s hairstyles have become a hot topic for Indonesia’s Muslims after calls from some Islamic clerics to have the procedure banned on the grounds that it invites moral danger. On Wednesday, the Fatwa Commission from the Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) said it had received a request from a [...]
PARIS (Reuters) – A French imam active in Muslim dialogue with Jews has backed a law against full face veils, parting ways with most Muslim leaders in France urging parliamentarians not to vote for a planned “burqa ban.” Hassen Chalghoumi, whose mosque stands in a northern Paris suburb where many Muslims live, said women who [...]
