Egypt University Loses Fight To Ban Veiled Student

In contrast to the recent spread of fundamentalist trends across the Middle East, the American University of Cairo had banned a student from entering the campus in full hijab for security reasons. A Cairo court,...

Bus drivers v the niqab

One really does not know what to make of this Telegraph article: the bus driver refuses to let a woman wearing the niqab board because he cannot identify her from her bus pass.  A few lines later, the woman ("who does not want to be identified") is offering to assist the...

Muslim veils prompt bans across Europe

" Feeding the controversy are a series of incidents pitting Europe's Muslim population against its Christian majorities: Last year's riots in France, the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, the slaying of...

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