August 2018: Muslim women in burkas 'look like letter boxes'
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Germany is the latest country to take a stance against burkas.
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"And then the sequel would be 'From Burkas To Bikinis'," he adds.
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The lawmaker, Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, complained that soon women would "have to wear burkas".
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Female peer workers wear burkas out on the street, which Qadria views as an advantage.
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The attackers used a rickshaw and wore burkas to disguise themselves as women, police told CNN.
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We make them ourselves," as well as a picture of women in swimsuits alongside the slogan, "Burkas?
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I was at a squash court in Pakistan recently and there were girls who came in wearing burkas.
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In Belgium, liberals argued that being unable to identify people who are wearing burkas was a security risk.
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"We'll be wearing burkas if we have Hillary Clinton," said the woman, who declined to give her name.
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This week a former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, compared women who wear burkas to "letter boxes" and "bank robbers".
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I with talked Rima Meroueh, a mom and graduate student in Near Eastern Studies, about hijab, burkas, and feminism.
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In recent years, she has painted female figures covered in shrouds reminiscent of ghosts wearing sheets or women in burkas.
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Eleven days after Rafi filed the police report, a group dressed in burkas lured her to the rooftop of her madrasa.
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Other offensive remarks he has made include calling black people "piccaninnies" and saying Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes".
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Sharia runs the spectrum from general Golden Rule morality to strict behavior enforcing beard length and burkas, depending on who is asked.
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Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Belgium, and Catalonia have imposed some form of ban to stop women from wearing burkas in public.
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A hotly debated question in some parts of Europe is whether Muslim women should be prohibited from wearing concealing garments such as burkas.
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He is a pro-business tax-cutter who is reported to have said "fuck business", a supporter of immigration who insults women in burkas.
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Femke Halsema, the mayor and a former leader of GreenLeft, has refused to enforce a national ban on burkas in her city's public buildings.
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Steering with her left hand, and clutching her camera with her right, she discreetly focused the lens on the other women drivers and their black burkas.
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In an article he wrote last August he said it was "ridiculous" that women should wear face-covering burkas that left them "looking like letter boxes".
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France was the first country in Europe to forbid full face-covering Islamic veils, known as burkas, as well as the niqab, which covers part of the face.
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Before I knew it, there they were on the court without their burkas, and trust me, they were running, maybe for the first time, completely free like the boys.
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The established press is much more interested in Boris Johnson's thoughts on burkas than it is about the fact that about half a million people visit food banks every week.
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On the one hand, we should rebuke certain voices on the right who wish to provoke or harass Muslim Americans as they go to the mosque or wear their burkas.
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SATC 2 attempts to portray this as a gesture of sisterhood—after all, the Arab women are wearing the latest Louis Vuitton under their burkas—but it feels incredibly patronizing.
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After the recent attacks, Merkel's Interior Minister, Thomas de Maizière, called for a ban on burkas in a wide range of public contexts—an appropriation of the AfD's party line.
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It is proof that Johnson, who last year compared Muslim women who wear burkas to "letter-boxes," will face constant reminders of his track record of racist, homophobic, and sexist comments.
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The reported remarks from Rachid Nekkaz, who already pays fines for women who wear Muslim niqabs and burkas despite bans in France and Belgium, provoked criticism from Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.
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If Iranian Shia Muslims can have a government based on their Shia interpretation of Sharia as state law, imposing burkas on women and punishing adulterers, then where is the Sunni Islamic state?
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They want us to be flirty burlesque dancers in burkas, aggressive conquistadors with cookies in the oven, Dorothy Parker meets Dorothy Gale, Sandra Bernhard meets Sandra Dee, Kristen Stewart meets Martha Stewart.
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"Burkas, headscarf girls, knifemen who live off benefits and other good-for nothings will not secure our prosperity, economic growth and above all the welfare state," Weidel had said to boos from other lawmakers.
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Abdullah Asrat, spokesman for the governor of Paktia province, said the heavily armed attackers, disguised in the all-encompassing burkas worn by conservative Afghan women, opened fire on private security guards outside the mosque in the city of Gardez.
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In April 2011, France became the first country in Europe to impose a ban on full-face veils in public areas, meaning that Muslim women who wore face-covering niqabs or burkas were no longer allowed to do so.
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Now, in his bid for the votes of right-wing Tory party members, he talks up the prospect of leaving the EU with no deal—"fuck business" if it gets in the way—and joking that women in burkas "look like letterboxes".
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After sharing a video of herself wearing the outfit on Instagram, some people called out the fact that while Cardi was seemingly allowed to wear the ensemble, Muslim women who wear face-covering niqabs or burkas in France are not allowed to do so.
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He has a reputation as an untrustworthy buffoon and an even more sinister history of racism: He has compared women in burkas to "letterboxes" and claimed that Muslim immigrants lack "loyalty to Britain" because of their religion: "Islam is the problem," as he put it.
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As the full-face veil won by Muslim women became a hot-button issue across Europe over the past decade, France was the first European country to ban burkas, niqabs, balaclavas, hoods and other such items in public places with a law that took effect in 2011.
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Although there are many reasons why a woman might choose to keep herself relatively covered up (age, professionalism, geographic location), to anybody who doesn't prescribe to a conservative religious ideology, "modesty" evokes images of Muslim women cloaked in head-to-toe burkas, Mormon sister-wives in prairie gowns, or Orthodox Jews in long skirts and wigs.
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Chechnya was the main producer of burkas throughout the North Caucasus. Burkas were part of the customary male garb of various peoples inhabiting the Caucasus region. Burkas were adopted by Russian cavalry, and worn as part of the Russian military uniform from the middle of the 18th century until the 1850s, during the Caucasus War. Vasily Chapayev was portrayed wearing a burka as a part of his military uniform in a 1934 Soviet film.
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The parliament still had to approve the measure. In November 2016, the legal ban on face-covering was approved by parliament.Welt.de: Niederlande verbieten Burkas und Niqabs , Welt.de, 29 November 2016.
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Svan man with burka and kinjal Georgian burka (nabadi) and papakhi displayed at a folk festival in 2008 Kumuk man with papakha, gazerei and kinzhal A burka ( ', ', ', Svan: ღა̈რთ ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ') is a coat made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name). See article "Burqa" for the etymology of the word. Karakul being quite expensive, burkas were usually sewn from felt treated to look like karakul. Burkas are sewn with high, squared off shoulders, and wearers will have a distinctive high-shouldered silhouette.
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Critics of the referendum say it is meaningless because there are very few Muslims in Ticino who wear burqas or niqabs. According to government estimations, officials say there are 400,000 Muslims in Switzerland and only 100 Muslim women wear burkas. Ticino is not the first region of Switzerland to propose a ban on Islamic veils. Three other Swiss regions previously had proposals to ban burqas and niqabs but dismissed them, making Ticino the first of the country’s 26 cantons to pass such a ban. Due to the ban, Muslims face fines up to £8,000 for wearing burkas in Switzerland.
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An Indian girl wants the freedom to choose her own destiny and the love of her life, but her mother wants to marry her off in an arranged marriage. The film portrays an intriguing mix of matchmakers, bhangra dancers, psychic healers, and religious fanatics, and addresses one of the most important issues in contemporary Muslim culture: women’s rights, veils and burkas.
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Wax reveals that there was no overdose—their goal is to trace the money back to a circle of Pakistani terrorists. Evidence leads them to the terrorists, resulting in an armed confrontation in which most of the terrorists are killed. Wax and Reese learn that the terrorists plan to infiltrate the U.S. embassy with explosives hidden beneath their burkas. As they collect evidence, they find photographs of Agent Reese pinned to a wall.
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Inhabitants of Rangabali Bangladesh is one of six countries of the world where the number of men exceeds the number of women. Eighty-eight percent of the population adheres to Islam. Veiling remains a domain of contestation in regards to whether it serves as a vehicle of empowerment or discrimination. While seen in Western discourse as restrictive of women's rights, some claim that burkas allow for better freedom of movement in Bangladesh.
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Buñuel takes a 52-minute road trip from the capital Kabul to Taliban hotbed Kandahar, stopping by Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. From the Kabul golf course, to a female Army helicopter pilot, from an interview with Mullah Omar's look-alike who spent two years in hiding, to the first night-club open to Afghanis, Buñuelexplores stories about a country that many have tried to boil down to burkas, bearded fighters and poppy harvests.
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In 2003 Light Square was given the name Wauwe as part of the Kaurna Naming Project. Wauwe, meaning female grey kangaroo, was named after the wife of Kadlitpinna, or "Captain Jack", one of the three Kaurna Burkas, or elders, at the time of colonisation. Kadlitpinna was appointed as an honourable constable; he was issued with a baton and uniform and attended official meetings with the Governor of South Australia. In February 2013 the spelling was revised to Wauwi.
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By popular referendum approved by 66% of the voters in September 2013, the canton of Ticino prohibited to hide the face in a public area. While the Swiss proposal did not target Muslim women specifically, the referendum became known as the "anti-burka" initiative. The referendum was pushed by conservative campaigners and was criticized by Amnesty international. One of the supporters of the ban, Giorgio Ghiringhelli, said he wanted to put a stop to "the inevitable spread of niqabs and burkas".
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Uniforms in a more traditional sense are almost never proposed in earnest. The debate on mandatory school uniforms intensified in Germany when two Muslim girls dressed in burkas arrived at a school in Bonn in 2006. The girls' actions were interpreted as political action and they were subsequently suspended from school. Then-Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag stated that the simple solution to the issue under consideration is mandatory introduction of school uniforms for boys and girls across Germany.
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Actors dressed in burkas put themes on the stage like sexual discrimination, intolerance and fanaticism. From a Western perspective, the piece was a rather innocent performance on hypocrisy of a society that bathes in corruption. In her own country though, Members of Parliament called for a ban of it, and the Minister of Culture threatened with sanctions when it would be staged any longer. In spite of the ban, non-governmental organisations and women's rights activists had the theatre piece translated into English and staged performances internationally as a sign of support to Ajoka.
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Actors dressed in burkas acted out themes of sexual discrimination, intolerance and fanaticism. From a Western perspective, the piece was a rather innocent performance on hypocrisy of a society that bathes in corruption. In her own country, though, Members of Parliament called for a ban of the performance, and the Minister of Culture threatened with sanctions, if the stage play continued. The ban on the stage play was finally imposed as threatened, but the non-governmental organizations and women's rights activists had the play translated into English and did staged performances internationally as an sign of support to Ajoka.
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The village is considered as a general center for the Shirdiy teip (a part of the Nokhckmakhkakhoy tukkhum), whose name may have originated at the Chechen word "ширдолг", which translates roughly as "slingshot". This means that the name of the clan may mean "warriors armed with slingshots". The name of the village comes from the name of the clan, with the ending "-мохк", which translates from Chechen as "country" or "nation" or "territory". There is another version of how the village got its name - in the Kalmyk language, "ширди" roughly meant "people who dressed in quilted felt", which may describe burkas.
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In February 2010, Hollobone described the wearing of burqas as like "going round wearing a paper bag over your head" and expressed his "huge sympathy" with those calling for a ban on the garments. He went on to say that he would refuse to speak with constituents wearing burkas if they came to see him, although he did not cite any examples of where this had happened in the past and he was told he would face legal action if he was to do so. On 30 June 2010, Hollobone introduced the Face Coverings (Regulation) Bill, which would regulate the use of certain facial coverings, including the burka, in public. However, his bill did not progress further towards adoption.
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Details about the show were revealed in The Sun today and storylines will include Kate Middleton catching Ebola, Prince Harry sleeping with Pippa Middleton, and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, falling pregnant, aged 68. Other 'jokes' in the series will include Kate Middleton being tricked into wearing a one-legged pirate costume to an amputee war veterans event and Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice planning to escape to Syria and wearing burkas. The controversial plots have been defended by the writers, who say the show's tone is "plainly silly" and "ridiculous". The Queen and Prince Philip will not appear in the series, except in explicit emails and letters to the rest of the family.
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In August 2018, Johnson said his son Boris's comments that Muslim women who wear burkas look like "letterboxes" and "bank robbers" did not go far enough, and that criticism of the comments had been "synthetic indignation" created by political opponents of Boris. In October 2018, Johnson said that, irrespective of the solution for the border on the island of Ireland after Brexit, if the Irish people "want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other". In early July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Johnson posted pictures on Instagram of himself travelling to Athens, Greece. He faced criticism after allegedly breaking "lockdown" rules, including from Liberal Democrat MPs Jamie Stone and Alistair Carmichael.
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Specialist Harpal Singh received Soldier of the Cycle award from his chain of command at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Not long after, in early 2017, the Army updated its regulations on grooming and appearances to allow Sikh soldiers and Muslim women to wear religious coverings, and for Sikh men to keep their beards. In January 2017, following the outcome of a lawsuit under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, regulations were changed, allowing for the wearing of beards and turbans by religious individuals (the same ruling also allowed the wearing of burkas and hijabs by Muslims). The ruling does stipulate that the regulations can require that the beards must be worn at certain lengths (via rolling and clipping) and must not interfere with operations.
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Harlan called Kabul a "sweet assemblage of floral beauty" full of "ornamental trees, apple orchards, patches of pearch and plum trees, vast numbers of mulberry of various species, black, white and purple, with the sycamore, the tall poplar, the sweet scented and the red and white willows, the weeping willow, green meadows, running streams and hedges of roses, red, white, yellow and variegated". Harlan was also curious about Afghan women who always wore burkas that covered their faces and bodies with none of their flesh to be seen. Harlan observed Kabul had a lively red light district full of "professional courtezans [sic] or female singers and dancers, libidinous creatures whose lives are passed in the immodest and secret intrigues of licentiousness". Macintrye wrote that Harlan's disapproving tone suggested considerable experience of the red light district of Kabul.
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Various commentators outside of France condemned the law based on what they saw as its racist implications. Susan Price, an Australian activist, argued that "the wedge-politics of racism has always been used to divide the working class, which in France pulled off spectacular rolling strikes against the government in 2003," adding that "the current attack must also be seen as part of a continuum of racist policies which go back to the mid-1990s and the 'Fortress Europe' policies of the major European capitalist governments" designed "to appeal to the support base of Jean-Marie Le Pen's right-wing National Front (FN)." Similar arguments were made at the time by American anti-racist activist, Sharon Smith, who added the claim that Muslim women in France opposing the 2004 law were fighting against the same "state-imposed oppression" as women in Afghanistan were opposing by seeking freedom to choose to refrain from wearing burkas.
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Of the Palestinians who kidnapped Gilad Shalit, Abrams wrote: > ... the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child- > sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women — those who > aren't strapping bombs to their own devils' spawn and sending them out to > meet their seventy-two virgins by taking the lives of the school-bus-riding, > heart-drawing, Transformer-doodling, homework-losing children of Others — > and their offspring — those who haven't already been pimped out by their > mothers to the murder god — as shields, hiding behind their burkas and > cradles like the unmanned animals they are, and throw them not into your > prisons, where they can bide until they're traded by the thousands for > another child of Israel, but into the sea, to float there, food for sharks, > stargazers, and whatever other oceanic carnivores God has put there for the > purpose.Clifton, Eli (October 19, 2011) "Emergency Committee For Israel > Board Member Calls Palestinians 'Savages', 'Unmanned Animals', 'Food For > Sharks'", ThinkProgress.org, accessed June 17, 2016.
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