Any reform agenda, on religion part attracts huge reaction, whether it is in France or US.Same is the case here in India, when a college in Hydrabad town imposed abn on Burqa.Reacting to the ban girls...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 2391 views | 29 recommendations | 31 comments
"The obsession with burqa, face-veil, niqab, hijab, parda has very little to do with religious beliefs and everything to do with the patriarchal, tribal, feudal mindset and value system," says The Ajoka Theatre...
created by rumana husain | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 578 views | 56 recommendations | 14 comments
Ban Racism and not the BurqaBindu GurtooSo the French president has gone and done it. In the first presidential address in the French Parliament since 1848, the esteemed President talked about… the Burqa! By declaring, quite theatrically in the parliament that there was no...
The French National Assembly and the Senate do not see eye to eye, in fact the last time they met in one place was 150 years ago. Therefore, for them to meet now has to be serious, and you could say as serious as...
opinion by kdwriter | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 204 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
These girls are to be admired.Ir will take time, years, buteventually women should andwill be allowed to live normallives in Afghanistan. "Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face...
"Women wearing burqas in cold countries risk broken bones from vitamin D deficiency Muslim Women wearing veil by Colin Gleeson MUSLIM women who wear the burqa in Ireland are at increased risk of pelvic...
REPORTS ARE coming out that the ten assassins may have had girlfriends with them an after eye witness claimed to have seen "Smiling Assassin" captured Ajmal Kasab aka Azam Amir Kasav, 21, in a shop in Cama, and...
created by Christina 123 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 347 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
PARIS-- Women who wear burqas (abayas) live in prison, a French minister said in an interview Wednesday, after a Morrocan woman who wears the head-to-toe Islamic veil was denied french citizenship. "The burqa is a...
created by danesller0127 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 364 views | 7 recommendations | 11 comments
Xeni had this to say on BoingBoing today:"
Security forces in Islamabad, Pakistan arrested the leader of a radical mosque after a bloody standoff -- the man was trying to escape the siege disguised in a burqa,...
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"THE HAGUE -- The Dutch government announced plans yesterday for legislation banning full-length veils in public places and other clothing that covers the face -- putting the Netherlands at the forefront of a...
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" AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk will now draw up legislation which will result in the...
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"The comic strip below has been censored by the International Herald Tribune (click it to enlarge).[see article]According to Judy Burt, IHT's Deputy Features Editor, "We know the name
of this comic is 'Non Sequitur.' Nevertheless, we felt it was obscure
to many of our...
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"Love, and not terror, was on the mind of a burqa -clad man from Navsari, who was mistaken for a spy and caught by Sahar police at Mumbai’s international airport on Thursday night.
Ilyas Mohammed Kagzi, 33, was on a mission to woo his girlfriend through her elder sister....