The Islamist junta in control of Syria, headed by former al-Qaeda officer Ahmed al-Sharaa, issued a decree on Monday that women must wear full-body coverings at public beaches and swimming pools.
The city of Vienna has finally lifted its long-standing masking requirement on public transport – and now those who still wear masks are banned from doing so, and could even face fines.
A group of women identifying themselves as members of an anti-jihadist collective known as the “Justice and Freedom Movement” organized a protest on Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan, against a Taliban decree passed over the weekend mandating women cover their faces in public.
The Taliban terrorist group’s “Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” issued an edict this weekend declaring that women and girls should leave their homes as little as possible and that women should wear “hijab,” which it defined as including face coverings, at all times.
Burqa sales have surged in Afghanistan since the Taliban terror group seized control of the country last month, an Afghan burqa merchant told Al Arabiya on Thursday.
Model Lily Cole has deleted and apologized for what she called her “incredibly ill timed” burqa selfies that she posted during the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. In the caption of her post, Cole included a call to “embrace diversity,” and promoted her new book about climate change.
The Taliban terror group is allegedly “going door-to-door” in some regions of Afghanistan to select girls as young as 12 years old to become “sex slaves” for the group’s jihadi fighters, News Corp Australia’s News.com.au reported Thursday.
The government of Sri Lanka announced this weekend it would implement a nationwide ban on burqas, Islamic coverings for women that shield the entire face, arguing the garment presents “national security” risks.
BERLIN (AP) – Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
BERLIN (AP) – Swiss voters decide Sunday on a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters. Polls are pointing to a close outcome.
GENEVA (AP) – At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid proposal to ban face-coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by a few Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
Authorities arrested a Bangladesh hospital owner on Wednesday for selling thousands of fake coronavirus test results to his patients.
A burqa-wearing man armed with a spray bottle is accused of stealing nearly $1 million worth of necklaces and watches from a New York City jeweler on Sunday.
Left-wing Welsh separatists Plaid Cymru have been embarrassed after the niqab-clad Muslim who starred in their election broadcast was linked to antisemitic posts on social media.
A Dutch ban on the wearing of face-covering garments such as the burqa which came into place in August has “no place” in a tolerant society, a U.N. representative said Monday.
A year after Denmark passed a law outlawing the wearing of the full-face Islamic veil, a total of 39 people have been fined for covering their faces in various ways.
The Metropolitan Police are investigating after footage of a woman clad in an Islamic niqab abusing Gay Pride marchers as “despicable people” went viral on social media.
An imam appointed as an adviser on defining “Islamophobia” in one of the last acts of Theresa May’s administration has accused Boris Johnson of having “legitimised the hatred that exists towards Muslim women”.
The chairman of Bradford City Women’s football club tendered his “immediate resignation” after someone complained about Facebook posts in which he suggested the Islamic burka should be banned.
Tunis (AFP) – Tunisia’s premier on Friday banned the niqab Muslim face covering for women in government offices, citing security concerns after attacks in the North African country.
Three people had acid thrown on them in two separate incidents over just a few hours in London, including a market stall vendor targeted by people “wearing burqas”.
The Islamic cleric invited to appear on the BBC-hosted Tory leadership debate to grill Boris Johnson over past face veil remarks is an anti-Semitic Jeremy Corbyn supporter, reports suggest.
The 23-year career of a family doctor hangs in the balance after he reportedly asked a Muslim woman to remove a veil covering her mouth so that he could better understand what she was saying about the condition of her ill child.
The government of Sri Lanka has banned full face coverings, including but not limited to the Islamic burqa and niqab, as an emergency measure following the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks targeting Christians and tourists.
Sri Lanka may be considering joining a growing number of governments in banning the burqa, an Islamic head covering that leaves no part of a woman’s body visible, local media reported Tuesday in the aftermath of the series of suspected jihadist bombings targeting Christians on Easter Sunday.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has heard complaints from two women in France regarding the country’s ban on the full face Islamic veil with sources claiming they could challenge the law.
Three robbers who kidnapped a jeweller, tortured him, and raided his shop disguised in an Islamic burqa before beating him to death and dumping his body have been imprisoned.
A Turkish tourist has been slapped with a 1,000 kroner (£121) fine in Denmark after she entered a police station to renew her visa while wearing a full-face Islamic veil.
Austrian police have offered the public a 2,000 euro reward to identify a man who robbed a Vienna bank while disguising himself as a woman wearing the Islamic veil.
Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński has waded into the European burqa debate, saying it should be banned partly for security reasons, and partly to make it clear to Islamic radicals that they cannot demand more rights in Europe than Europeans have in Saudi Arabia.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s wife makes a fashion statement by wearing a white niqab to his swearing-in ceremony.
British biker Liam Bradley has complained of “racism” after being commanded to remove his open crash helmet at a petrol station, while a woman in a “burqa” filled up beside him without issue.
Elements of the mainstream left in Britain have responded to an apparent terror attack outside Parliament, in which several people were hurt and one woman hospitalised with “serious” injuries, by suggesting it was a “reckoning” for people being mean online.
Establishment ‘conservatives’ and left-liberal politicians and journalists have rushed to condemn Brexiteer former foreign secretary Boris Johnson for his comments on the “ridiculous” burqa, branding him “Islamophobic” and even “racist” — but have not shied away from criticising the garment themselves in the past.
Michael Nazir-Ali, the Pakistan-born former Bishop of Rochester, has weighed into the controversy around Islamic face veils to call for a near-total ban on the garments, supported by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey.
A majority of Brits do not think Boris Johnson should be disciplined for mocking the Islamic burqa but do think free speech is under threat, a new survey reveals.
Peter Hitchens, brother of the late ‘anti-theist’ writer Christopher Hitchens, has waded into the debate surrounding Boris Johnson’s burqa comments, declaring it is Christianity, not Islam, which is “under siege” in Great Britain.
This is it — the moment we’ve been waiting for. The moment when the Brexit rebellion finally began.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has attacked the Tory Party establishment for putting Boris Johnson through a “show trial” for his comments on the burqa, saying that it is motivated by “envy” because the Brexiteer is a strong contender to be the next Prime Minister.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Gerard Batten has criticised London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for checking if comparing burqas to letterboxes is a ‘hate crime’.
