One foreign woman strangled her niece for removing her niqab, while another was beaten for cleaning in front of her tent without a niqab, Karo says.
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In the months leading up to his niqab ban, the university's rector, Yudian Wahyudi, and members of its staff expressed alarm that more and more students were wearing the niqab in recent years.
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She emerged wearing a niqab and soon Rahma followed suit.
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Warda Niali was among them, wearing her niqab and jilbab.
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Snapshot: Above, members of the Niqab Squad, in Depok, Indonesia.
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The women, cloaked in niqab, are nearly impossible to identify.
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ISIS also demanded that local women wear the full black niqab.
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The niqab is a face veil that leaves the eyes clear.
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The case became a contentious issue during the 2015 election, with Liberal leader Trudeau saying the niqab was dividing Canadians, and the Conservatives pledging to consider a ban on the niqab while providing or receiving federal services.
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I have a friend who wears a niqab, and that's her choice.
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They had me wear a hijab, a niqab, and even an abaya.
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The niqab is a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes.
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" "I once had a blind date walk into the restaurant wearing a niqab.
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A niqab covers the woman's face except for the area around the eyes.
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The niqab and burka are not mentioned in the legislation, according to CBC.
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A niqab is a veil that covers the face, apart from the eyes.
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The niqab is "rooted in a culture that is anti-women," Harper said.
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Eight wore a hijab, and one also wore a niqab, or face veil.
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This would effectively mean a ban on the niqab and the burqa, he added.
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Banning the burqa and niqab, as France has, was not the solution, she said.
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It follows other European governments in proposing restrictions on wearing the burqa and niqab.
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Then at the end of July, thousands of niqab sets were distributed to shops.
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Tashfeen Malik normally wore a niqab—the face veil, leaving only the eyes visible.
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The NDP defended niqab-wearing women; it was not the popular position in Quebec.
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There have been reports that terrorists have been using niqab to disguise themselves, TAP said.
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"Whoever wears niqab or burka in Austria has to deal with the consequence," Kurz said.
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Niqab: A veil that covers a woman's face with a slit left for the eyes.
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A growing number of women in Indonesia are promoting the niqab, a conservative face veil.
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Witnesses said the suicide bomber, who blew himself up on Tuesday, was disguised in a niqab.
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The militants, she says, once asked her husband to whip her for not wearing a niqab.
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Yet a ban might simply prevent those niqab-wearing women from leaving the house at all.
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Small wonder she seeks release from her appearance, at one point, in a full black niqab.
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Despite the ban, she said she intended to continue to wear the niqab, whatever the consequences.
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"I long to take off the niqab and the darkness that cloaks us," one woman says.
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Women especially have been targeted when wearing devotional headdress or body-covering clothing like the niqab.
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My idea of freedom is wearing hijab and if I want to wear niqab I will.
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She complained that under ISIS she had to wear a black niqab all of the time.
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In 2010 France became the first European country to ban the burqa and niqab in public.
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It is a niqab, the full face veil, not the burqa, a head-to-toe covering.
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I'm willing to do anything creatively with the niqab as long as we preserve its integrity.
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Rahmani ended up having to cover her face with a niqab just to leave the house.
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An Azerbaijani teenager was strangled by her grandmother for trying to abandon her niqab head covering.
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All three women identify as Muslim and wore the niqab before the ban went into effect.
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France, a case challenging France's 2010 law banning face-covering veils, including the niqab and the burqa.
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"Because of their dress, they are often confused with extremists," an analyst said of Indonesia's niqab wearers.
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The niqab was, in his words, the height of religiosity, the female garb that most pleased Allah.
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The first of numerous decrees was issued, ordering women to don the niqab as well as gloves.
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It's not how they think it is which is, that ... everybody has to be in a niqab.
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One woman lifted her niqab briefly for a photo in front of a Valentine's Day flower display.
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Mulcair suffered in the 2015 election by standing up for Muslim women's right to wear a niqab.
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In May, Austria's parliament approved a niqab and burqa ban in public which goes into effect October.
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"I saw a woman wearing niqab, I was afraid as it was something strange in Tunis," Ali said.
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Women caught wearing a niqab or a burqa can be slammed with a fine of 150 euros ($167).
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"Even now, we don't know if this is permanent," says Al-Khatib, wiping her tears through her niqab.
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France banned both the burqa and the niqab in 2011, becoming the first European country to do so.
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But it's understood the niqab and burka, worn by some Muslim women, would be affected, the BBC reports.
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The niqab covers everything but the eyes, while the burqa also covers the eyes with a transparent veil.
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In other words, don't assume that they were radicalized by French foreign policy or the French niqab ban.
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In the make-up tutorials Al Awad (above) posts, she sticks to Saudi convention by wearing the niqab.
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Among the more disputed proposals is a call for a partial ban on the burqa and niqab garments.
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It doesn't include the words "niqab" or "burqa," Muslim headdresses that cover all or part of the face.
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None of the three mothers wore the niqab, the Islamic head covering that obscures all but the eyes.
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Both headscarves and the niqab, the full-face Islamic veil, have stirred debate in countries around the world.
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In April 2011, France became the first European country to ban wearing the burqa and the niqab in public.
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Some argue that the niqab (as well as less concealing forms of Islamic dress) is a form of oppression.
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Here's a brief history of how the push to ban the niqab and burqa has progressed over the years.
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Some liberal Muslim women see the burqa and the niqab as part of a culture that suppresses women's freedom.
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A few of them of them wear the full niqab or a burqa, shielding their faces from public view.
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"It's good that there's a debate on the niqab," said Julia Suryakusuma, a prominent Indonesian author and social commentator.
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"This should have been a good article about opposing the Danish niqab ban," he told the BBC's "Newsnight" program.
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Today, some Indonesian fashion designers specialize in the niqab, the full black veil that leaves only the eyes uncovered.
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Ms. Begum, who wears a face-covering niqab, rarely leaves her neighborhood for fear of being insulted or worse.
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Mahmoud's father died two years ago, said Umm Bilal, who wore a robe and Islamic face covering, or niqab.
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A few months ago, when she removed her niqab, he beat her and locked her up again, she said.
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Some have tried to restrict the items, the niqab in particular, others have called for women to wear them.
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Sabina: I'm here today because I believe the new burqa and niqab ban is extremely discriminatory and rooted in Islamophobia.
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His wife was unreadable, wearing a flowing niqab that obscured her face except for a narrow slot for her eyes.
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Cover image: Women in niqab walk in front of the Danish Parliament at Christiansborg Castle, in Copenhagen, May 31, 2018.
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More recently, bans in Austria, Denmark, France and other countries have focused on Islamic garments like the burqa and niqab.
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Bilal had demanded his wife wear a niqab, or face veil, and his brother had already left for the caliphate.
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Women wearing the islamic veil niqab stand outside the Danish Parliament, at Christiansborg Castle, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday May 31. 2018.
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When the artist was ordered to remove it, he painted over it so that the candidate was wearing a black niqab.
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The first thing I thought was that they'll start by taking away our right to wear a niqab, but what's next?
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From the age of 10, she wants to dress in the niqab, the full-body garment covering everything but the eyes.
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"Parliament has clearly stated that the burqa and niqab do not belong in Denmark," the party's immigration spokesman Martin Henriksen said.
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As she lifted a niqab to reveal the face of the girl she was holding in her arms, Ms. Nettleton wailed.
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The niqab is a religious symbol, but I want to enhance it creatively and show people that it's not a limitation.
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The more conservative styles of covering"—the burka, the abaya, and the full-face veil called the niqab—"are not mandatory.
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Beyond security concerns, I find the niqab and burqa deeply dehumanizing, not least because they relegate women to beings without an identity.
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We traveled undercover, wearing the niqab, a black veil that covers the entire face, except for a small slit at the eyes.
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Lawmakers in Belgium voted to introduce a ban on full face veils, including the burqa and niqab, in public places in March.
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A 59-year-old Egyptian woman says Saipov's wife wore a niqab, a traditional Muslim veil that left only her eyes showing.
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All the women at the checkpoint on Tuesday were dressed head-to-toe in black including the full face veil, or niqab.
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The AfD unveiled a platform that included ideas about banning minarets and the niqab and encouraged German women to bear more children.
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In my news media delegation, there is a Yemeni woman who looks like a sweet granny until she flips on her niqab.
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In her most viral video, she stares into the camera, her face covered in a niqab, save for her perfectly outlined eyes.
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She said it was important to point out that the niqab is not an integral part of either Islam or Indonesian culture.
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In 2011, France became the first country in Europe to ban the full-face Islamic veil (called the niqab) in public places.
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Mr. Beaudry spoke specifically about the group's opposition to the niqab and the burqa, Islamic styles of dress that cover women's faces.
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"Could you imagine having to touch pork while wearing a niqab?" one of them told me, referring to the full-face veil.
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Even at the conservative madrassa in Multan, she was notable for wearing the niqab, and for urging others to become better Muslims.
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A woman wearing a face-covering niqab was referred to the public prosecutor after footage of her dancing in public went viral.
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But supporters of religious freedom argue that the act of wearing the burqa or niqab should be a right guaranteed to women.
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The video then skips to another angle of the man, also from the point of view of the woman in a niqab.
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"When I decided to take off my niqab my mother's reaction was to tell me that she would never forgive me," said one.
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This will affect Muslim women who wear the burqa, which covers the face and body, and the niqab, which only covers the face.
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There was also the niqab "debate," which looked set to decide the federal election for a depressing but not insignificant chunk of time.
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In December, for the first time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed her party's call for a partial ban on the niqab and burqa.
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The Conservative party's platform, included, among other things, a ban on wearing the Niqab, and a hotline for reporting suspicious activity by immigrants.
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It is not clear who filmed the video, although it appears to be the woman in the niqab who has not been identified.
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The elder brother possessed photos of Osama bin Laden, as well as numerous photos of women in full Islamic niqab, police officials said.
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Members of the Niqab Squad, as they call themselves, say it's a way to get closer to God and to avoid sexual harassment.
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Denmark has joined some other European countries in banning garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
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In a mall in Riyadh, I was shocked to see a woman awkwardly eating noodles without taking off the veil of her niqab.
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An exception was one woman who made her way across campus dressed in a niqab — a head covering with only her eyes showing.
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The Harper government banned the niqab, the veil worn by some Muslim women, from citizenship ceremonies and systematically cold-shouldered mainstream Muslim organizations.
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The X-Men universe introduced Monet St. Croix back in 1994, and Sooraya Qadir as Dust in 2002 — who appeared wearing a full niqab.
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Despite his philanthropic gesture, Nekkaz said he believes wearing the niqab or the burkini is not the best way to integrate in European societies.
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The niqab is compulsory under the IS in Mosul, even on store mannequins, and women are forbidden to walk outside without a male guardian.
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Here are details on where the full-body burqa and burkini, and the niqab face veil, are banned and where bans are under discussion.
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And neighbors and friends said Mr. Saipov's wife wore a niqab as part of a full-body covering that left only her eyes exposed.
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Ever since she started wearing a niqab in 2011, Warda Naili said she had endured almost daily harassment and abuse in her native Montreal.
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A growing number of Muslim women there are promoting the niqab veil as a way to get closer to heaven and avoid sexual harassment.
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The most visible change was that Muslim women stopped wearing their traditional sari or shalwar kameez in favor of the hijab, abaya or niqab.
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While one-piece garments like the niqab and burqa come in different styles, they all fully cover the body and face, including the eyes.
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Women wearing the islamic veil niqab sit in the audience seats of the Danish Parliament, at Christiansborg Castle, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday May 31. 2018.
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Denmark joined some other European countries in deciding Thursday to ban garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa.
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Debate has focused on the niqab, a veil worn by a small minority of Muslim women that covers the whole face save for the eyes.
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"When I had the baby I felt a sense of motherhood and was happy," the Syrian refugee said through a translator, adjusting her floral niqab.
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The United Nations Human Rights Committee found Tuesday that France's ban on the niqab, the full-body Islamic veil, is a violation of human rights.
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The country has waged an obsessive legal war against headscarves since 2004, when the full-face veils like the burqa and the niqab were banned.
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Others have taken the time to make distasteful jokes about women being bad drivers or tweet photos of cars covered in cloth mimicking a niqab.
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Muslim women who wear the burqa, niqab, hijab or burkini are seen to be a constant reminder of the limits of state control regarding terrorism.
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A movement of born-again conservative Muslim women in Indonesia — the world's most populous Muslim country — is making a case for wearing the niqab veil.
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Douar Ladaam is a traditional village, and many mothers of girls in the program wear the all-covering niqab, which reveals only a woman's eyes.
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However demeaning the requirement of wearing a niqab in public might be, it is only one symptom of a system that restricts women's fundamental rights.
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The niqab is an Islamic face veil that leaves the area around the eyes unobstructed, although a separate eye veil can be worn with it.
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France, which has the largest Muslim minority in Europe, estimated at 5 million, has banned the wearing of the niqab and burqa in public since 2010.
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"From now on I have to wear niqab (face veil) if I want to walk in the streets of my hometown," Loubna said after the ceremony.
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"One of my students asked me to go the shop with her to get milk because she was wearing a niqab and was scared," says Safari.
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But the debate over the bill has turned to what would happen to Muslim women wearing a niqab or a burqa who ride on public transit.
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During a May 2015 trip to Dubai, Khloe Kardashian posted an Instagram photo of herself in a facial covering worn by Muslim women called a niqab.
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This time, the advice to wear the niqab, or face veil, came with a threat of punishment by lashings or acid attacks for those who refused.
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When it comes to the niqab, in the name of representation, I want to make sure it's not reduced over time and the modesty remains intact.
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"There are very, very few who use the niqab," Linda Noor, of the Oslo-based Minotenk think tank, which focuses on minority issues, told broadcaster NRK.
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The niqab and hijab, or headscarf, were banned under secular governments until the ouster of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime in 2011, Reuters reports.
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France, which has the largest Muslim minority in Europe, estimated at 5 million, in 2010 introduced a ban on full-face niqab and burqa veils in public.
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Instead they insist on their right to dress how they like, whether in tight jeans or a full-length niqab, and not to be judged for it.
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"You cannot imagine how happy we are today ... We feel that there is openness towards us," she said, wearing the black niqab covering all but her eyes.
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She says that she has only ever met women who say it is their choice to wear Islamic-style dress, such as the niqab, a face covering.
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The Islamic full-face covering, the niqab and the burqa, have both been used many times as camouflage for jihad activity, as well as simple criminal activity.
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It gave the lie to the nonsense spouted by visitors to Europe who see a woman wearing a niqab and assume the continent is under sharia law.
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Bill 62 would affect whether Muslim women could wear religious face covering such as a niqab or burqa on government jobs or when they receive government services.
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In 2015, Khloe Kardashian posted an Instagram photo in which she wore a facial covering worn by Muslim women called a niqab, which some felt was disrespectful.
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She wears a niqab, a face veil with a slit for the eyes that is not compulsory in the country but widely worn by more conservative women.
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Ms. Siti called the niqab "a new phenomenon," noting that even Indonesia's most traditional Islamic schools have never required women and girls to fully veil their faces.
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In a number of countries, including France, Germany, and Denmark, the niqab and burqa — religious coverings worn by some practicing Muslim women — are partially or totally banned.
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Sir Michael Wilshaw said that he would support any heads who banned the "inappropriate wearing" of a Muslim face veil (variously known as the niqab or burqa).
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The ban on wearing full-face Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa in public was part of a package of planned reforms announced late Monday.
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They wear a full-body garment called an abaya and cover their heads and hair with a hijab or a niqab, which has a slit for the eyes.
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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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The ban passed Tuesday includes garments such as the burqa and the niqab, and encompasses public spaces such as public transportation, schools, government offices and hospitals, AFP reports.
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In October 2019, a woman was charged with violating publish morality after a viral video showed her "shuffling" in her abaya and niqab at a concert in Riyadh.
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The piece presents a crowded scene, concentrated in the middle panel: a man with a monkey, a girl in a niqab, a mom with a daughter in tow.
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I met one young woman in a niqab, her face and body covered in heavy black cloth, clutching a plastic cup filled with swirls of mango and strawberry.
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Carrying signs with phrases like "Fingers away from my niqab," women wearing the traditional Muslim veil were joined by dozens of supporters wearing makeshift coverings across their faces.
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What caused a wild swing in the votes was a court fight over whether Muslim women could take the oath of Canadian citizenship wearing the face-covering niqab.
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While the law does not single out any religion by name, debate has focused on the niqab, a full-face veil worn by a small minority of Muslim women.
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She made this a condition because since joining ISIS she had begun to wear the niqab, the clothing worn by conservative Muslim women that only shows a woman's eyes.
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A U.N. survey in 2013 found 99% of Egyptian women said they had been victims of harassment, and that was true even for women wearing the face-covering niqab.
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"A society that tells a woman what she can wear on her head in the case of a veil or a niqab is not a free society," he explained.
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The 21-year-old trainee teacher, who has worn the niqab for the past year and a half, said the ban would have a huge impact on her life.
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She said she was the only member of her family to wear the niqab, and that she chose to do so of her own volition, as a spiritual choice.
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Belgium banned the niqab - which covers the hair and face except for the eyes - and the burqa in 2011 and 60 women have since been prosecuted for wearing them.
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A woman wearing an Islamic niqab -- to hide her face and protect her family members still in Mosul -- told CNN how ISIS would shoot at civilians as they fled.
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When I'm wearing my niqab, I make great efforts to communicate in other ways, so I've never experienced it as a challenge to connect with the world around me.
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Originally, I began wearing the niqab for religious and cultural reasons, and as I became more involved in the photography community, I found myself facing questions about my identity.
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Even so, in 2010, Quebec's premier, Jean Charest, went ahead with a ban on the niqab for government employees and for anyone receiving a public service, including health care.
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The student had attended Camden School for Girls for five years, but over the summer decided to start wearing the niqab—an Islamic veil that covers the whole face.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Copenhagen policewoman is being investigated for embracing a niqab-wearing protestor during a demonstration against a ban on face veils, the force's complaints body said on Wednesday.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, the full face veil, in public institutions for security reasons, an official source said on Friday.
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Another woman wearing an Islamic niqab -- to hide her face and protect her family members still in Mosul -- described to CNN how ISIS would shoot at civilians as they fled.
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While plenty of devout Muslim women choose to wear the niqab, the Islamic State's heavy-handed policy on it has drawn resentment from moderate Muslims living under the group's rule.
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"We want to go back for our children to go on with their lives," said one of the women, who like the others wore the niqab or full face veil.
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In much of the world, including South Asia and North Africa, women often don a half-niqab, a square of fabric tied or held with a band below the eyes.
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So, if you look at the photographs, I'm always head-to-toe in black, often with just a headscarf, but most often with a full niqab, a full facial veil.
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Under the new measures—which were passed by the Netherlands' parliamentary Senate—Muslim women who wear the burka or niqab in government buildings will be subject to a €400 fine.
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In 2011, France became the first country in Western Europe to ban face-covering garments like the burqa or niqab in public, although the law did not explicitly mention Islam.
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Danish politicians passed a law Thursday banning clothing that covers the face, making wearing full-face Islamic veils like the burqa and niqab in public punishable with a $753 fine.
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"We don't want just one or two to get closer," shouted a woman cloaked in a niqab, the full-body female garb worn by devout Muslims, urging others to follow.
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On Tuesday, the Dutch upper house of Parliament officially criminalized the act of wearing the burqa — which covers the entire face and body — and the niqab — which covers the face.
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Prime Minister Youssef Chahed signed a government order Friday that prohibits anyone wearing a niqab, which covers everything but the eyes, from accessing public offices, according to official news agency TAP.
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She stayed in Morocco despite the threats, wearing a niqab — a head scarf that covers the face and leaves an opening for the eyes — in an effort to avoid being recognized.
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They mention France's participation in the coalition campaign bombing ISIS in Iraq and Syria, its ban on the face veil, or niqab, and the large number of Muslims in French prisons.
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"I was contacted recently for a photoshoot where they wanted to hire a Muslim model and put her in a niqab, which is to cover her nose and mouth," she says.
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A few years after Belgium passed a national ban on the burqa and niqab, a Belgian ice cream parlor saw fit to enact its own mini-ban on customers wearing headscarves.
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Last year, a women's group named the Niqab Squad was formed at a Jakarta mosque to fight what it calls prejudice against face veils, and it now has chapters across Java.
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Toss in a couple of interesting entries, like NIQAB and IDLE HANDS and a factoid or two (like the S.F.P.D. starting during the Gold Rush) and you have a fun solve.
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The face-covering, or niqab, became a big issue in the 2015 Canadian federal election, especially in Quebec, where the majority of the population supported a ban on it at citizenship ceremonies.
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He also said that a ban on niqab and burqa veils in public that was introduced in France in 2010 had not led to a reduction in women wearing them there nevertheless.
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In Europe there will be more campaigns against the niqab and hijab (coverings worn by some Muslim women), and their absent handshakes, egged on by the frothing-at-the-mouth right–wing.
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In the Netherlands the Senate is mulling a law passed by the lower house that would ban the niqab (which covers most of the face) and the burqa in many public contexts.
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A woman in a black, all-covering niqab, sitting in a minibus with her six kids, screamed at the uniformed security forces at the checkpoint, trying to strike them through the window.
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"It's important to fight for any women's right to wear the hijab or not, to wear the niqab or not - if it's her own choice and her own free will," she said.
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When it comes to the face-covering garments, such as the burqa or niqab, I believe the government has a legitimate security claim in wanting individuals in public places to be identifiable.
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However, she was wearing a niqab, and the jihadists at the checkpoint were reluctant to insult a fellow Sunni Arab by making his wife expose her face, so she was not recognised.
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SAN's ads, as far as they related to immigration and refugees, were execrable scaremongering, invoking the phantom threat of Sharia law being applied worldwide — the Mona Lisa wearing a niqab, for instance.
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But recent amendments have expanded the plan to cover municipal services, including public transit, meaning women can't wear the niqab or burqa when they're on a bus or subway in the province.
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This proposal is much more restrictive than bans on veils that cover the face, such as the niqab and the burqa, already in place in Austria, as well as Belgium and France.
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"We need to send a signal to the government that we will not bow to discrimination and a law that specifically targets a religious minority," one participant wearing a niqab told Reuters.
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Most Algerian women do not wear the niqab, a custom imported from more traditionally conservative Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, but the decision is likely to criticized by Algeria's Salafists minority.
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Incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper, of the Conservative Party, spent months decrying the wearing of the niqab, a face-covering garment worn by some Muslim women, particularly by immigrants during citizenship ceremonies.
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It was on this basis that the French banned the Islamic headscarf and other "conspicuous" religious symbols in state schools in 2004, and the face-covering niqab in all public places in 2010.
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After police were called, they found the woman had been illegally wearing a niqab in public and after she removed it issued a fine of 1,000 Danish kroner, or $156, Sky News reported .
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Kevin O'Leary, a darkhorse candidate for the leadership, has opened fire on the outgoing leader, suggesting that Harper lost the election for wading into identity politics by demonizing the niqab and Muslim refugees.
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One of the first things her husband, Bachir, did was buy her a jilbab, which covers a woman from head to toe, and a niqab, the veil that hides all but the eyes.
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"We like it here because of the peace and the quiet," said Mr. al Mekhyal, 49, as his wife nodded agreement, her eyes peering from a narrow slit in her face-covering niqab.
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Those measures have included bans on the burqa and niqab, as well as the symbolically punitive "jewelry bill" that allowed police to seize asylum seekers' valuables to offset the cost of supporting them.
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Finally, some say that the burqa and the niqab, a similar Muslim face covering, are tools of male oppression, and that banning such Islamic garb promotes gender equality (albeit at the expense of liberty).
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And for the 200 or so women in Denmark who wear a face veil, their world has grown smaller after a ban on niqab veils and body-length burqas in public spaces, said Khankan.
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The law is billed as a way to make schools, hospitals and public transport safer, but critics say its only aim is to get rid of Islamic veils, such as the burqa and niqab.
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As I wrote back in July, in spring 2016, the AfD unveiled an explicitly anti-migrant platform that included ideas about banning minarets and the niqab and encouraged German women to bear more children.
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Danish news agency Ritzau reported that police were called to a shopping center in Horsholm, a city of 46,000 located north of Copenhagen, to confront a woman wearing a niqab garment covering her face.
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"We need to send a signal to the government that we will not bow to discrimination and a law that specifically targets a religious minority," one participant wearing a niqab told the wire service.
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At the historic Bohoniki mosque, one 70-year-old Tatar woman talked about the niqab, the veil worn by women from some conservative Muslim countries that covers the whole face except for the eyes.
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But the contretemps over the burkini, like that over the burqa (actually the niqab) and the hijab, or head scarf, before it, is emblematic of a deeper discomfort with religion throughout the Western world.
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And at the start of last week, the rector's office at the university, the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta, confirmed that the niqab ban had been rescinded.
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He cited a local uproar over the suspension of a Maldivian teacher for wearing a niqab in the classroom, and President Trump's attempts to place travel restrictions on individuals from six predominately Muslim countries.
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ZAUBE, Latvia — With her niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil that reveals just the wearer's eyes, Liga Legzdina stands out amid pine trees, grasslands and wood-paneled cottages in the Latvian hamlet of Zaube.
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Halima Ali Beder, 39, said she had resentfully made each new addition to her wardrobe, starting with the niqab to cover her face, and the abaya, also known as a jilbab, a loosefitting gown.
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" The photo, which shows Gilda sitting beside a Muslim woman in a niqab quickly went viral after a conservative twitter account (@polNewsNetwork1 – since closed) posted it, writing derisively, "This is the future that liberals want.
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BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saudi women are stepping on the face veils some are made to wear in the conservative kingdom and posting it on social media with the hashtag "the niqab under my foot".
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As you might expect, a majority of the Muslim respondents supported the right of Muslim students to pray in government schools, and of Muslim women to wear a niqab, or face veil, at citizenship ceremonies.
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Men sat outside playing backgammon, and women walked down the sidewalk in full niqab, a black gown with an attached veil that covers everything except the hands and a small rectangular opening for the eyes.
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A woman in a niqab confronted a man who insulted her Muslim faith as "committing hate speech against me" at a California coffee shop, in a video that has been widely circulated on social media.
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This flattening affects representations of young Muslim women in particularly pernicious ways, as though being religious or wearing a hijab or niqab means that someone cannot be outspoken, bitingly sarcastic, deeply intellectual, or profoundly cosmopolitan.
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But she was after a larger, more inclusive vision — not only women working alongside men, but also women who wear the niqab, the veil that exposes only the eyes, working alongside women with bare heads.
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Meanwhile, the center-right party — and the campaign of then-President Nicolas Sarkozy — had begun to adopt some of the positions and policies of the FN, including cracking down on immigration and opposing the niqab.
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In 2011, women were allowed to wear the hijab and niqab in Tunisia after a decades-long ban under secular presidents Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Habib Bourguiba, who rejected all forms of Islamic dress.
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The Austrian ban makes public wearing of the Arab-style niqab, which leaves the eyes uncovered, and the Afghan-style burqa, which covers the face with a cloth grid, liable to a fine of 150 euros.
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There were many reasons for the defeat, but one was certainly Harper's hard line on accepting Syrian refugees and his opposition to the wearing of a niqab, or facial cover, by Muslim women at citizenship ceremonies.
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In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives want a partial ban on the niqab, or face veil, while in Austria right-wing politicians have called for a ban on the burqa, which covers the face and body.
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In the video, the man leans into the woman and says, "I said is this Halloween or something," apparently in reference to her niqab, a garment that covers most of a person's face except their eyes.
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Reuters reported that about 85033,300 people, many wearing face veils such as the burqa and niqab, marched to the police station on the outskirts of the capital and back to the city's central, left-wing district.
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Denmark's parliament has passed legislation outlawing the wearing of face coverings in public spaces — a move critics say infringes on the rights of Muslim women who choose to wear the niqab or burqa, NBC News reports.
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Several high-profile members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc have called for a ban on the burqa and niqab garments, saying they show a lack of integration, suggest women are inferior and could pose security risks.
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According to The Independent, the government has been "playing tough" with Muslims over the past week; the Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, told an interviewer that she wouldn't employ anyone wearing an Islamic niqab face veil.
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DENMARK JOINS SOME EUROPEAN NATIONS IN BANNING BURQA, NIQAB Justice Minister Soeren Pape Poulsen has previously said that it will be up to police officers to use their "common sense" when they see people violating the law.
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"We welcome this decision and demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi follows in Sri Lanka's footsteps and bans the burqa and niqab in India," the Mumbai-based Shiv Sena party wrote in an editorial in the Saamana newspaper.
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Virtually all women wear the niqab, the full-length black veil demanded by ISIS's rigid interpretation of Islam — some because they still adhere to the group's ideology, others because they fear running afoul of the true believers.
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While the law, which takes effect by July 1, 2018, does not specify which face coverings are prohibited, the debate has largely focused on the niqab worn by some Muslim women, which covers everything but the eyes.
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The burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes, are worn by some Muslim women in accordance with their religious beliefs.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark looks set to become the next European country to restrict the burqa and the niqab, worn by some Muslim women, after most parties in the Danish parliament backed some sort of ban on facial coverings.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's government said on Tuesday it planned to fine people who covered their face in public, putting it in line to join France and others restricting the burqa and the niqab, worn by some Muslim women.
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Although Refaeli has removed the video from her social media pages with the exception to her Facebook, she has already received a significant amount of backlash as the ad seemingly implies freedom is the removal of a niqab.
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It came with a helpful chart, displayed in subway stations and other public spaces, of an outsize crucifix, a hijab, a niqab, a turban and a skullcap — all types of religious accouterments the proposed law sought to ban.
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France was the first country to nationally ban the burqa and the niqab from public places in 2011, and even tried to temporarily ban burkinis in certain cities following the recent wave of terror attacks in the country.
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" In July, a woman calling herself Umm Bakr al-Ansariya issued a well-circulated fatwa, an Islamic decree, demanding that Muslim aid workers wear the Niqab, and threatened those who defied the order with "punishment by the sword.
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AM ADASA, Syria (Reuters) - When U.S.-backed forces seized Souad Hamidi's village in northern Syria from Islamic State last week, the 19-year-old swiftly tore off the niqab she had been forced to wear since 2014 and smiled.
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Other key tenets of UKIP's stance include banning women from wearing the burqa and niqab in public, reducing net migration in the U.K. to zero and declaring June 23 – the date of last year's EU referendum – U.K. independence day.
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For a long time, Raghda and Rafaa seemed fated to retrace the path of their five older sisters: arranged marriages while still young; children soon thereafter; faces covered with the niqab, the black veil that reveals only the eyes.
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On Wednesday evening, women wearing the traditional Muslim face veil, known as a niqab, and full coverage burqas were joined by dozens of supporters wearing makeshift coverings and handkerchiefs tied across their faces at a protest in central Copenhagen.
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Ms. Legzdina is one of a tiny handful of women — generally estimated at three — to wear the niqab in this Baltic nation, whose population of less than two million people includes about 1,000 practicing Muslims, according to government estimates.
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The niqab-clad stars of the music video "Hwages," by Saudi singer Majed al-Esa of 8ies Studios seem like they could hold down that title just fine — in between bouts of dancing, bowling, skateboarding, and general patriarchy-smashing, that is.
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"We have given guidance to the Muslim women to not to cover their faces in this emergency situation," ACJU assistant manager Farhan Faris said after the scholars asked the government to drop plans for a law against the burqa and niqab.
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The Social Democrats have backed tougher legislation, including a ban on wearing the body-covering Islamic burqa and niqab face veil in public, as well as a "jewellery bill" that allows police to seize refugees' valuables to help pay their costs.
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The veil worn by some Muslim women also has become a flash point in France, which passed a law in 2010 banning face-covering garments like the burqa or niqab in public, although the law did not explicitly mention Islam.
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In April 2011, France became the first European country to ban public wearing of the burqa, a full-body covering that includes a mesh panel over the face, and the niqab, a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes.
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" Denmark's Minister of Justice Søren Pape Poulsen has made similar comments, calling the niqab "incompatible with the values in Danish society" and saying it was "disrespectful to the community to keep one's face hidden when meeting each other in public spaces.
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The new law will allow police officers to issue fines of 1000 DKK (roughly $160 USD) to women covering their faces with a niqab or a burqa, and anyone else covering their face "without recognizable purpose," according to the law.
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Hundreds of veiled demonstrators gathered in Copenhagen earlier this month to protest against Denmark's "burqa ban," a law enacted in May that allows police officers to fine women who wear the Muslim niqab or body-length burqa in public areas.
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Manal Shehab, 50, the only woman in the room wearing a niqab, said she wore it for 24 years previously and only recently stopped, although she still wears it to Speed Date a Muslim events to represent that group of women.
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She was frequently asked why she wasn't wearing the niqab (a veil that covers the entire face, except for the eyes) and would explain that although some women choose to express themselves in this way, it is not required by law.
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B. A Twitter account associated with 20173chan's vile /pol/ board tweeted a photo of a woman in a niqab next to a drag queen on the New York City subway, implying something nefarious (more nefarious than the drag queen's manspreading).
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" In March, a photo of a drag queen and a woman in a niqab sitting next to each other on the subway went viral after a now-suspended far-right account tweeted it with the caption, "This is the future that liberals want.
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It is also said the law was unnecessary, as only 200 to 400 women in The Netherlands wear a burqa or niqab, making it improbable that they would pose a big enough problem for schools, hospitals and public transport to merit a law.
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Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, France banned women from wearing the niqab in any public place, making it illegal for women to be outside the house with their faces veiled, unless they were in a place of worship or a passenger in a car.
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The vote passed with 132 of the 150 MPs in the Netherlands favoring the proposal, which would mean that women will no longer be able to wear the burqa or niqab in places such as government offices, schools, and on public transportation.
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Read more: The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking the IMEI number on their cellphonesMany women attending the festival will wear a full body covering, like a burqa or niqab, coupled with a cloak called an abaya.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling it out of step with the country's true culture, it seemed a significant pushback against the conservative drift of Islam.
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In 2014, during interviews about the appearance of the "burkini" at community pools, he recalled one extremely hot summer day seeing a man dressed in shorts and sandals while his wife was wearing a full niqab — head-to-toe covering including black gloves.
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Amid the euphoria of the Jasmine Revolution, the repressive apparatus of Tunisia's police state temporarily fell apart, and young men could grow their beards without being harassed; young women began appearing in public wearing conservative head scarves or even the full-face niqab.
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"If a woman is isolated and forced to wear a burqa or the niqab, by criminalizing it, you will isolate her even more, because she might not be able to go out," said Khankan, who also runs a domestic violence support group, Exit Circle.
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Unstereotyped: muslim feminists fight for change The law should prohibit men from forcing women to wear a niqab, which allows only a slit for the eyes; a burqa, which drapes over the entire body, including the face; or even a simple hair-covering hijab.
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" In the campaign video called "Freedom Is Basic," which was shared on Refaeli's Facebook page Monday, the 33-year-old model can be seen wearing a niqab — an item of clothing commonly worn by some Muslim women — while the words "Is it Iran here?
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In Denmark—where only around 150 women wear the full face veil but the anti-migrant Danish People's Party has gotten increasingly popular with voters—the center-right government's motive for banning the niqab and burqa as of August 1 was not so different.
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But it is precisely because so few women wear the burqa or niqab in European countries, according to Maryam H'madoun at the Open Society Justice Initiative, that certain centrist politicians think it's fine to stir up resentment against the women who wear these garments.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court ruled on Monday that a Muslim woman could not wear a niqab to evening school, fuelling a debate about the face veil after conservatives pressed the government to ban women from wearing it in schools, at courts and while driving.
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Beside them were photos of two women with their faces covered — one by a niqab, a veil that leaves the eyes visible, and the other by a burqa, the all-encompassing garment forced upon women under the Taliban regime that was toppled in 2001.
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The Associated Press reported Saturday that a woman wearing a niqab, a type of full-face veil worn by a minority of Muslim women in Denmark, was confronted by police at a shopping center in Horsholm, near Cophenhagen, and fined the equivalent of $156 for the infraction.
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A young woman tearing off the niqab she had been forced to wear for two years until U.S.-backed forces liberated her northern Syrian village from Islamic State and a Brazilian mother cradling her daughter who was born with microcephaly are among the most memorable images from 2016.
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The woman had complained on Friday to the administrative court in the northeastern city of Osnabrueck after a school overturned its decision to give her a place because she felt obliged to wear the niqab - which covers the hair and face except for the eyes - for religious reasons.
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In spring 2016, a draft of an AfD platform picked up in the press including explicitly anti-migrant policies like banning minarets and the niqab (the veil that covers the lower part of a woman's face that some observant Muslim women wear), and encouraged German women to embrace motherhood.
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This principle is supposed to keep religion out of public life, and has been the basis of previous French bans: on the headscarf (and other "conspicuous" religious symbols, including the Jewish kippah and oversized crucifixes) in state schools (in 2004), and the face-covering niqab in all public places (in 2010).
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The issue has again pitted conservative Islamic groups here, which insist it is a woman's right to publicly wear the niqab — a full head covering with only eye slits, usually accompanied by a shoulder-to-toe gown — against advocates who are concerned that more extreme strains of Islam have become ascendant.
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It was the first of countless "veil affairs," and in this century successive French governments passed two laws: one from 2004 that forbids the veil (as well as the skullcap and large crosses) in schools, and another in 2010 banning full-face coverings such as the niqab in all public spaces.
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Saudis are accustomed to judging a covered woman's approximate age, profession, and social background from the cut of her abaya and the way she wears her head and face coverings, but for foreigners the niqab can lend a blind-date awkwardness to public meetings, even with women well known to them.
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But it's mostly intended to ban the face coverings that some Muslim women wear — specifically the burqa, which completely covers the face and body, leaving a mesh panel to see through, and the niqab, the face veil that covers the lower half of the face but leaves the eyes visible.
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I mean, a society that tells a woman what she has to wear on her head in the case of a veil or a niqab is not a free society, but then how is a society that tells a woman what she can't wear on her head or on her face?
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Hosein's study, which is funded by Partnership for Change: The RBC Immigrant, Diversity and Inclusion Project at Ryerson, is mainly centered around depictions of two Marvel Comics heroes: Dust from the X-Men series, who wears a niqab and can turn into living sand, and Ms. Marvel, a Muslim Pakistani-American shapeshifter.
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Seierstad shows the Norwegian teachers struggling with the girls' lifestyle choices — wearing the niqab in school, leaving in the middle of class for prayers — but she never pulls back and describes Norway in her own words, as if it, too, might be as foreign a place for the reader as the Islamic world.
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In September, a landmark survey commissioned by the Montaigne Institute found that 28 percent of French Muslims had adopted values "clearly opposed to the values of the republic," with a mix of "authoritarian" and "secessionist" views, including support for polygamy and the niqab, or full-face veil, and opposition to laws enforcing secularism.
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"I know it's risky to keep this paper with me but I decided to hide it and show it to anybody who asks me how life was under Daesh," he added, puffing on a cigarette, which is banned by IS. He expressed frustration that his wife has continued to wear the full veil, or niqab, after moving to Baghdad.
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Image 2 of 2 COPENHAGEN, Denmark – 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 by a tiny number of women in Denmark took effect in the country.
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Johnson, who resigned last month over the way May is negotiating Brexit, wrote in The Daily Telegraph this week that Denmark was wrong to ban the burqa, a head-to-toe cloak which conceals the face with a mesh or is worn in conjuction with the niqab - a face veil that leaves only the eyes exposed.
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The banning of forms of Muslim veiling in various public spaces — from the hijab ban in French schools and restrictions for teachers in some parts of Germany to an outright ban of the face-covering niqab in public spaces in Denmark, Belgium and France — shows how anti-Muslim sentiment has moved comprehensively from society's fringes to the heart of government.
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Though France has had a long history of discomfort with clothing that demonstrates any religious identity— banning headscarves in public schools for both teachers and students, forbidding public servants from wearing the same, and banning the niqab (a full-face veil showing only the eyes) entirely in public — the garment has remained a lightning rod for the basic argument about what freedom means when applied to fashion in liberal society.
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The "future that liberals want" meme might as well have been a template for this structure: You start with sincere outrage — with "the future that liberals want," it was a dismissive quip about a photo of a drag queen sitting next to a woman in a niqab on the New York subway — and end up with dramatically manufactured outrage over, for example, an apple holding a sea trident.
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And since it's basically impossible to talk about women in Islam these days without someone bringing up the issue of how much clothing they're required (or not required) to wear, here's a fun fact: Although women must cover their hair with a scarf, the face veil, known as a niqab, and the burqa, the garment that covers from head to toe with only a mesh-like panel through which to see, are not allowed during hajj.
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