The government of Sri Lanka announced this weekend it would implement a nationwide ban on burqas, Islamic coverings for women that shield the entire face, arguing the garment presents “national security” risks.
BERLIN (AP) – Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
BERLIN (AP) – Swiss voters decide Sunday on a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters. Polls are pointing to a close outcome.
GENEVA (AP) – At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
French Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, the author of a report on Islamic radicalism in France, has claimed that certain areas of the country do not enforce the ban on Islamic face veils.
The Chinese embassy in Paris has lodged complaints, stating that Chinese nationals have been scammed with fake fines by fraudsters pretending to be enforcing Islamic veil laws on those wearing masks.
A year after Denmark passed a law outlawing the wearing of the full-face Islamic veil, a total of 39 people have been fined for covering their faces in various ways.
The Netherlands has brought into force a ban on Islamic face veils in public spaces, 14 years after it was mooted by Dutch populist Geert Wilders.
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has given France six months to revise its ban on the full face veil in public, ruling the law to be “oppressive” against Muslims.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has heard complaints from two women in France regarding the country’s ban on the full face Islamic veil with sources claiming they could challenge the law.
Geneva (AFP) — A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional “burqa ban”, after voters in St. Gallen overwhelmingly voted Sunday to prohibit all face-covering garments in public spaces.
A Turkish tourist has been slapped with a 1,000 kroner (£121) fine in Denmark after she entered a police station to renew her visa while wearing a full-face Islamic veil.
Senior Tory Brexiteer MPs on the right of the party are revolting against the politically correct investigation of Boris Johnson for joking about the burqa, with one threatening a “civil war”.
While the debate over the place of the Islamic face veil in Western society has been reignited after British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson criticised the garment in a recent opinion piece, three robbers were convicted of killing a jewellery store owner after robbing him whilst disguised in a burqa.
Brexiteer Boris Johnson MP is facing an investigation by the Conservative Party over comments he made about the Islamic burqa while Britain’s most senior police officer has said that he has not committed a ‘hate crime’.
Leading Conservative Party progressive Ruth Davidson has attacked former foreign secretary Boris Johnson’s opposition to the burqa and has equated wearing the Islamic garment with the Christian cross, while Tory arch-Remainer Dominic Grieve has threatened to quit the party should Leave campaigner Johnson become leader in what appears to be a proxy battle over Brexit.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An Iranian-born designer made more than a fashion statement in Denmark on Wednesday by showcasing models wearing the conservative Muslim niqab, and others dressed as police officers, days after a law banning the full-face coverings worn
A Muslim female doctor has penned a viral column backing Boris Johnson’s mocking of the Islamic face veil, arguing it is an “anti-Western” political statement and claiming Islam “certainly does mandate modesty”.
Theresa May has led demands for Boris Johnson to apologise for comparing Islamic burqas and face veils to the appearance of bank robbers and “letterboxes.”
Boris Johnson has been mocked as a “pound-shop Donald Trump” because he has been rude about the burqa.
HELSINKI (AP) — A 28-year-old woman wearing a face veil has become the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new law banning such garments in public places.
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
Swedish municipal preschools in so-called “vulnerable areas” may force children to wear Islamic veils if their parents demand it while neighbouring Norway has banned the full-face veil from classrooms.
Denmark has become the latest country in Europe to outlaw the wearing of Islamic face veils in the same week that a study revealed nearly three-quarters of Britons would back a ‘burqa ban’.
Hundreds of police were deployed after residents rioted and torched cars in the Toulouse district of Reynerie following a police stop of a woman wearing an illegal full-face Islamic veil.
Central European Austria has issued 50 fines to transgressors of the full face covering ban in the first six months since it was enacted, each carrying a punishment of up to €150.
Britain’s top judge has referenced medieval Quranic sources and “sharia law” to justify asking Muslim women to remove the full-face veil and burqa at some points in court.
The Danish Ministry of Justice has put out a press release indicating that the government is looking to place a ban on full-face Islamic veils and levy a fine on violators.
Swiss Islamist activist Nora Illi was briefly detained by police in Vienna after she and three other women wore full-face Islamic veils in the centre of the city where wearing the garment is banned.
In a bizarre turn of events, the group of “free thinkers” that fought to have a cross removed from public property in northwest France is now fighting to save a mosque.
GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says voters will decide whether to ban face-covering garments like masks or Muslim burqas and niqabs.
VIENNA, Austria: Algerian millionaire and political activist Rachid Nekkaz was arrested by police in the Austrian capital after wearing a full-face mask in violation of the newly implemented law banning facial coverings like the Islamic veil.
A female Austrian teacher was attacked in Vienna by a woman wearing a full-face Islamic veil, or niqab, after telling the woman the garment is now banned in the country.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark will join other European countries banning full-face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
Algerian millionaire and political activist Rachid Nekkaz has promised to pay the €150 fines of any Muslim woman caught wearing the full-face Islamic veil in Austria after the ban on the garment comes into effect on October 1st. Mr. Nekkaz (pictured,
Australian Senator Pauline Hanson has called for a ban on all Islamic full-face coverings, otherwise known as the burqa, in public places.
A bill in Quebec that would force people to be unmasked when in receipt of a public service has been amended to include public transit which could see wearers of the Islamic full face veil banned from using local buses.
Australian anti-mass migration senator Pauline Hanson has caused controversy after she wore the full face Islamic veil known as the burqa in a session of the country’s senate.
VIENNA (AFP) – New Austrian legislation came into force Friday that will ban the full-face Islamic veil in public places from October 1.
Austria has passed into law a ban on wearing full-face Islamic veils, such as the burqa and the niqab, in public. Violators face fines when the legislation comes into effect in October.
