Articles tagged with: Niqab
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 …
From Iqra.ca
The bill before the Quebec legislature that would require the niqab be removed when a person deals with government employees and access government services in that province should not be passed, …
By Haroon Siddiqui
The two most cited reasons in support of Quebec’s anti-niqab bill are that the veil is an imposed oppression since no woman would ever voluntarily wear it and, second, that the province’s proposal …
Report by Samaa Elibyari’s visit to Naima Ahmad, Monday March 8 2010
1. The context
I am sure you have been following the news about the case of Naima Ahmad, a Canadian resident of Egyptian origin living in …
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. …
Editorial From The Globe and Mail Newspaper
There obviously need to be some limits on the accommodation of religious and cultural minorities. Female genital mutilation is one example. Child marriage is another. But the case of …
From CBC News
The Quebec government stands by its decision to expel a woman from a language class for refusing to remove her niqab veil and will take further steps to avoid similar situations in the …
By Salma Saleem
I usually have to face the staring eyes of people on the streets. People look at me with mixed expressions of surprise and sympathy.
Many people think, perhaps, that I am a poor woman …
From CTV Toronto
A Muslim woman fighting for the right to wear her niqab while testifying in a sexual assault case has suffered a partial setback.
A Superior Court of Justice judge said in a judgment released …
By Faisal Kutty
Toronto Star, February 04, 2009
Here they go again. Muslims just don’t give up trying to change our values and roll back hard fought rights of equality and justice. Though this time, we may …
