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Man punches nurse for removing wife's burqa Indo-Asian News Service, Updated: December 23, 2011 22:27 IST London: A Muslim man in France has been jailed after he punched a nurse who tried to remove his wife's veil during childbirth. Nassim Mimoune, 24, had already been expelled...

August 2, 2011 Italy Burqa Ban? Country Is Latest In Europe To Mull Outlawing Muslim Veils The Canadianm Press - August 2, 2011 ROME - An Italian parliamentary commission Tuesday approved a draft law banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. The draft...

Oppression is in the eye of the beholder, you know. Having spent my undergrad years up to my elbows in literature on marriage and families, this is a topic that's graced my intellect on more than one occasion. With the dawn of the feminism age in the mid-1900s, droves of women proclaimed...

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-teacher-says-no-to-burqa-in-a-west-bengal-muslim-university-isnt-allowed-to-teach/653282/0 For the past three months, 24-year-old Sirin Middya has not been able to hold her classes at West Bengal’s first Muslim university. While the guidelines at Aliah...

RIYADH: A popular Muslim cleric says it is permissible for Saudi women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned, while criticizing efforts in Europe to outlaw the garment. Sheik Aedh al-Garni’s ruling was in response to a question from a Saudi woman in France about...

Jail or fines if Belgium's burqa ban made law Don't play video Play video now World - smh.com.au Belgian lawmakers are set to impose a ban on wearing the Islamic burqa in public, the first clampdown of its kind...

February 19, 2010 http://www.zeenews.com/<wbr>news605366.html Paris: A move by a French fast-food chain to offer halal menues at a handful of restaurants has left some politicians fuming, in the latest row over France's increasingly visible Muslim minority. The Quick chain has taken...

Don't vote if can't shed Burqa SC tells Muslim women New Delhi: In a statement of far reaching consequences, the Supreme Court on Friday said electoral rolls with photographs cannot be opposed on the grounds that they hurt religious sentiments. "You cannot say I will still be a burqua-clad,"...

France is formulating a strict new law under which women who wear full-length veils (burqa) in public places will have to pay a fine of over 750 Euro. The amount could be doubled for Muslim men who force their wives or other female members of their to cover their faces, The Daily Mail has...

Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent remarks that “the burqa, a sign of female subservience, will not be welcome on French territory,” caused uproar in India where religion is omnipresent and the wearing of personal religious symbols has never been questioned. It would be unthinkable...