The mainstream media has been embarrassed by a data poll which shows a large majority of the British public do not believe criticising the burqa is “racist” and would support banning the garment
Sky News anchor Kay Burley has drawn heavy criticism after comparing the barrier the Islamic burqa puts between wearers and society at large to the facial burns of a famous war hero.
Boris Johnson has been mocked as a “pound-shop Donald Trump” because he has been rude about the burqa.
Muslims and left-wingers have rallied in the streets of Copenhagen to protest a new law against wearing face coverings in public, which they claim is an attack on women’s right to dress as they please. When the ban came into
The Swiss government is considering introducing penalties for forcing women to wear Islamic face veils, as a referendum on a total ban on the garments nationwide looms.
The Swedish consulate in Jerusalem has been forced to distance itself from a cartoon picture featuring a child in a hijab to celebrate the end of Ramadan, after a backlash from people accusing them of supporting the oppression of children.
Most Brits back a ban on Islamic burkas or niqabs, a new survey has found, and a significant portion said Islam, in general, is not compatible with their British way of life.
A French tobacconist in the commune of Albi has been handed down a three-month conditional sentence and a €3,000 fine after asking a Muslim woman wearing a chador to remove it from her head to identify herself.
Democratic Congressman Luis Correa has hung a painting on his office wall depicting the Statue of Liberty dressed in a hijab
A man disguised in a burka allegedly lured an 11-year-old boy from a mosque before raping and murdering him.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s Constitutional Court has repealed a ban by a village led by a far-right mayor on the construction of mosques and headscarves like burkas and chadors worn by Muslim women.
The European People’s Party, which includes European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a member, has called for a ban on the Islamic face veil in the whole of the European Union.
Britain will not ban the Islamic veil in work or public places, the prime minister has said.
A Saudi-style burka that showed a woman’s thighs as part of its body-hugging design has been quickly withdrawn from sale by online retail giant Amazon after complaints that it was “racist”.
SOFIA (AFP) – Bulgaria’s parliament approved on Friday legislation outlawing face-covering Islamic veils in public, joining a small number of EU countries as debate rages across Europe about religious freedoms.
“Selectively edited” Footage of a young Muslim woman wearing a so-called Burkini being threatened on a French beach was a deliberate set-up for the benefit of a Channel Seven Australia television crew, according to revelations in the Australian press. Newspapers around
One of the UK’s largest police forces has said they “don’t have any barriers” to Muslim women wearing a burka on the job, and are “consider[ing]” introducing the full-face garment into their uniform.
A leading team of Oxford University sociologists has published a paper arguing that Muslim women veil “because they are engaging with a modern, secular world”, arguing that bans “deprive them of a means… for integration”.
Local outrage ensued after a water park near Marseille, France, announced a Muslim-only event for Muslim women to wear their Islamic-inspired “burkini” full-body bathing suits.
ISTANBUL – A Turkish man detained as a suspected would-be suicide bomber in northern Turkey was actually wearing a burqa to disguise himself to meet a secret lover from a dating site, local media reported Sunday. Locals in the Black Sea
Two men have been jailed for robbing a pawnbroker with an imitation firearm when dressed in burkas, after members of the public foiled their cover because they “did not walk like women.” The court heard how the criminals brazenly walked
Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has a history of courting Muslim voters through flirtations with Islamic fundamentalism. This has included addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab.
