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For many women, wearing the burqa represents modesty, piety, and cultural identity, while others choose it as an expression of personal or religious commitment. A minority of scholars in the Islamic jurisprudence consider it to be obligatory for Muslim women when they are in the presence of non-related (i.e., non-mahram) males. This is in order ...
Two mannequins; one to the left wearing a hijab on the head and one to the right veiled in the style of a niqab.. Various styles of head coverings, most notably the khimar, hijab, chador, niqab, paranja, yashmak, tudong, shayla, safseri, carşaf, haik, dupatta, boshiya and burqa, are worn by Muslim women around the world, where the practice varies from mandatory to optional or restricted in ...
The burqa is worn by women in various countries. Some countries have banned it in government offices, schools, or in public places and streets. There are currently 16 states that have banned the burqa and niqab, both Muslim-majority countries and non-Muslim countries, including Tunisia, [1] Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, [2] Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of ...
The Islamic State group reportedly has banned women in its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul from wearing face-covering burqas. The Islamic State group reportedly has banned women in its Iraqi stronghold ...
Part of the party's platform is a complete ban on the burqa and Islamic headscarves in the civil service and schools, but all other parties refuse to include them in a coalition. A group of Muslim women organized a pro-burqa demonstration at the newly elected parliament in The Hague, on 30 November 2006. The demonstration attracted national ...
Two weeks ago, an employee at Diane's Fine Desserts in Le Center, Minn., got her long skirt stuck in a boot washer. She wasn't injured, but her employer decided to take precautions anyway: No more ...
[24] [25] The burqa was the most visible dress in Pakistan. [citation needed] It is typically a tent-like garment worn over the ordinary clothes and is made of white cotton. Many upper-class women wear a two-piece burqa which is usually black in colour but sometimes navy blue or dark red.
The British debate over veils began in October 2006 when the MP and government minister Jack Straw wrote in his local newspaper, the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, that, while he did not want to be "prescriptive", he preferred talking to women who did not wear a niqab (face veil) as he could see their face, and asked women who were wearing such items to remove them when they spoke to him ...