Articles tagged with: france
French Senate votes overwhelmingly to ban Islamic face veils in final move toward law by ELAINE GANLEY
September 14, 2010
The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely …
Worrying trends behind France’s ban of the niqab
By H.A. Hellyer
ISPU Europe Fellow
In 2006, Jack Straw, then leader of the House of Commons in the UK parliament, published a now famous piece on the face veil, or niqab, worn by some Muslim women. …
The Taliban Would Applaud – President Nicolas Sarkozy is foolishly inciting anti-Muslim prejudices as a way to deflect public anger over high unemployment
Editorial in The New York Times
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil, as the Taliban …
