A full 83 percent of voters back the Conservatives’ position on the Muslim face veil. In the last debate among party leaders on Friday night, New Democratic party leader Tom Mulcair was clearly ...

Legislation banning full-face Muslim veils in public spaces has gone into effect in Austria. The government says the law, which says faces must be visible from the hairline to the chin ...

Dr Qanta Ahmed, a British-American Muslim doctor who lives in New York, does not wear a face veil and supports a ban on them. She said the number of women wearing them in the West is increasing in ...

Another group of Muslim women who do wear hijab claims a feminist reason for doing so ... This view is the most common today among advocates of women’s covering, though a smaller number also recommend ...

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil, the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing ...

PETALING JAYA: Muslim women should wear a face mask underneath their veil, advised Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. “We are following the World Health Organisation’s ...

The niqab, a face-covering veil worn by some Muslim women, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in Western discourse.

Sexual expression is viewed as an individual choice. Thus, the Muslim veils and gender restrictions are viewed as gender oppression. From a Muslim world-view, modesty is a central part of worship ...

Islamic authorities in Russia's mostly-Muslim North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Wednesday temporarily banned women from wearing the niqab full-face veil after simultaneous attacks targeting ...

The European Court of Human Rights upheld France’s 2010 ban on full-face veils in public ... Last summer, a police check on a Muslim woman with the full veil resulted in two nights of rioting ...

The authorities in the southern state of Jubaland imposed a ban on the niqab -- a full-face veil worn by some Muslim women -- in the port city of Kismayo in 2021 for security reasons, although ...