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• Cultural disjoint: Saudi TV presenters c…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 498
  Cultural disjoint: Saudi TV presenters covered from head to toe. A new TV show that discusses issues concerning teenage girls and female university students was recently broadcast with Saudi presenters dressed in black from head to toe, the Saudi English-language Arab News reported on Thursday. What’s the point ...
  6 days ago

• Wear A Niqab In Helsinki And Get Stares!

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  As the world changes its demographics, it becomes increasingly more common for Muslim women to be found in climes that historically were not their destination. A reporter for the Finnish newspaper, Sanomat, decided to experiment by wandering around Helsinki dressed in a niqab, the conservative face covering worn by ...
  6 days ago

• Wahhabization of Women in Egypt

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 498
  CAIRO (Reuters) – Rokaya Mohamed, an elementary school teacher, would rather die than take off her face veil, or niqab, thrusting her to the forefront of a battle by government-backed clerics to limit Islamism in Egypt. Egypt’s state-run religious establishment wants teachers like Mohamed to remove their veils in ...
  1 week ago

• Niqab Or Not To Niqab?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  The emergence of blogs is a wonderful opportunity for those whose voice can not be heard to spread their ideas around the world. However, when ambassadors to nations begin to expose their hidden thoughts on a blog, they might be offering some interesting comments on the state of the world, but they open the door to ...
  1 week ago

• Muslim Group Seeks to Ban Woollen Socks

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 537
  special contribution by Faraz Siddiqui Toronto, Oct 28th: In what seems to be a rising fad, a Canadian Muslim organization has asked the federal government to ban woollen socks from public spaces. According to a statement released yesterday by the Islamic Taskforce Against Oppression (ITAO, also known as the ...
  1 week ago

• En Égypte, la bataille du niqab

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  envoyé par Marlyse SaportaDepuis une dizaine dannées, le port du voile intégral sest banalisé dans les rues du Caire. Deux Égyptiennes sur dix le porteraient désormais dans les campagnes. Crédits photo : ASSOCIATED PRESS Longtemps permissif, le gouvernement cherche la bonne tactique afin dendiguer lengouement ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Arlington, Texas, niqabi calls for bo…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 498
  In Arlington, Texas, niqabi calls for boycott of store that kicked her out for not removing her face veil. The woman’s name is Latifa Aimaq, the store is The Cooper Street Farmers Market, and the store owner is Chris Perez. Each accuses the other of over-reacting. “I said, ‘We’re Muslim; this is the way we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Would You Let This Masked Woman Into Your Store?

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 624
  By Debbie SchlusselIf I were Chris Perez, I wouldn’t let this full-ninja-garbed woman, Muslim Latifa Aimaq, into my store, either.  That’s the policy at the Cooper Street Farmers Market in Arlington, Texas near Dallas.  If you’re wearing a full Islamic face veil a/k/a “niqab,” you can’t be in the store, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The End of the Niqab Case: HA! Jihadist Lawyer Dumps Client, Throws Case for Greener Pastures

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 624
  By Debbie SchlusselYou won’t read about this anywhere else.  The mainstream media certainly won’t announce a tremendous loss for courtroom jihadists.  Nor will they highlight the consistently incompetent and malodorous behavior of one of the most vehement Islamic activist attorneys, Nabih H. Ayad.Ginnah ...
  2 weeks ago

• Niqab Wars In Canada

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  Maryam Rasa was born in Toronto , attended high school in the city and went on to study at the University of Toronto, but these days she proudly walks the streets of her home town with face covered under a niqab because this dress allows her to be herself and foster a sense of being a devout Muslim. During the past ...
  2 weeks ago

• Al-Qaraḍāwī: Niqāb is Neither an Obligation Nor an Innovation

  
  Suhaib Webb — Authority: 476
  Excerpt from Shaykh al-Qaradawi’s fatwa (issued Oct. 1995) | Translated by U. AbdullahIn his fatwa about the niqāb, between the claim of its obligation or innovation, the esteemed scholar Dr. Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī states: “I know that the argumentation surrounding these controversial issues will not end with a ...
  2 weeks ago

• How the 2006 niqab affair popularised the BNP

  
  Indigo Jo Blogs — Authority: 124
  Gary Younge in today’s Guardian traces the upsurge in anti-Muslim bigotry to Jack Straw’s attack on the niqab in 2006: Three years ago this month Jack Straw argued his case for urging Muslim women who attend his MP’s surgery to remove their niqab. He said that he wanted to start a debate. In this, at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Yo Asquith, why don’t you shut the fuck up?

  
  3arabawy — Authority: 488
  The British Ambassador in Egypt has started blogging and is weighing into the Niqab debate… Spread the word!
  2 weeks ago

• “I detest the niqab and the BNP: what does that make me?”

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 114
  For anyone who has read the post by Gary Younge on Comment is Free entitled, ‘When you watch the BNP on TV, just remember: Jack Straw started all this’, many I’m sure will conclude that he makes some good points. Not least when he notes that:…there is little doubt that once the BNP is on [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Egypt to ban full women’s veils

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 625
  Egypt’s highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women’s veils, known as the niqab. Although most Muslim women in Egypt wear the Islamic headscarf, increasing numbers are adopting the niqab as well. The practice is widely associated with more radical ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Response to the Tantawi Cult : The Many Books of Classical Sunni Tafsir that Mention The Covering of the Face

  
  Seeking Ilm (Knowledge) — Authority: 110
  Recently the deceptive and sly enemy of our Ummah, “Shaykh Al-Azhar” Tantawi claimed that “The niqab is a tradition and has nothing to do with Islam.” He further banned the niqab in the noble Azhar, following the whims of the shayatin and taghut within the Egyptian government, may Allah guide them all Amin!I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Do Muslim Women Wear A Veil?

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 444
  A recent decision by the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi to express misgivings about young girls or women wearing the niqab has stirred up a controversy in Egypt and other Muslim nations. Tantawi told an eleven year old to remove the niqab because she was in an all-girls school and there was no need ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Niqab/Burka-ban Argument

  
  Truth Seeker — Authority: 118
  Just shaking my head at this Fateh guy. I am absoultely flabbergasted by his views and actions towards his own Muslim Ummah. He’ll only answer to Allah someday as He is the prime witness to all of this mayhem. SubhanAllah! Posted in ALL, ALL ABOUT HOPE, CAUSES & EVENTS, Political Mambo Jambos, [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Jumping on the Niqab Ban(dwagon)

  
  Muslimah Media Watch — Authority: 545
  Not to be outdone by Egypt’s Shaykh Tantawi , the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) released a statement two weeks ago that calls for the Canadian government “to introduce legislation to ban the wearing of masks, niqabs and the burka in public.”  Their rationale for this statement seems twofold: one one hand, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Le niqab sera banni des lycées égyptiens

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 141
  envoyé par Liliane SaltielCette étudiante de luniversité du Caire porte le niqab, voile intégral ne laissant apercevoir que les yeux. La montée du port du niqab inquiète le gouvernement égyptien.Photo AFPLe ministre de lEnseignement égyptien, Yousri al-Gamal, a décidé de faire appliquer une directive ...
  3 weeks ago

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