Tag: VEIL
Egypt bans schoolgirls from wearing niqab
Cairo’s niqab ban models French government’s recent decision to ban schoolgirls from wearing the abaya.
The Secret Sinner Who Caused a Drought
Four lessons from a powerful story of repentance that you may not have heard of before.
I wear niqab and I’m as English as they come
One white English Muslim's response to Boris Johnson's pandering to the far right
#Secularism – China bans baby names that are “too Islamic”
Officials in Xinjiang region, home to half of China’s Muslims, have confirmed that the government has banned “religious” baby names for Muslims, in an ongoing crackdown by the secular government against “religion”.
The Burkini Ban Shows Our Power
I’m glad they banned the burkini – now the world sees what stupidity we have to put up with Many have been talking about the infuriating images we have seen of armed French police forcing a Muslim woman to strip to her undergarments on a beach in front of sun-bathers…
The Niqab – a convenient veil for Islamophobia?
If I wasn't someone with first hand experience, being a niqab wearing women myself, I would think that Muslims were a tad paranoid in saying that politics and the media run a recurring cycle of Islamophobic jabs. As a woman who has worn the niqab in England, it appears that…