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London Mayor Candidate Condemned For Burqa Remarks: "People Hiding Their Faces For Criminal Reasons"
Reform UK's London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham faces widespread criticism after comments linking burqa-wearing women to criminal suspicion, raising concerns about Islamophobia and social division.
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Burqa City Director Fabrice Bracq On Similarities Between His Arabic Film And Laapataa Ladies: "Shocked And Surprised"
On Saturday, Laapataa Ladies writer Biplab Goswami responded to the controversy and claimed that his story is “100% original”
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Laapataa Ladies Writer Biplab Goswami Denies Plagiarism Allegations Amid Comparisons With Arabic Film Burqa City: "Completely Untrue"
Biplab Goswami clarified that he had registered the synopsis of Laapataa Ladies with the Screenwriters Association back in 2014, before the Arabic film was even made
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UP Students Walk Down Ramp In Burqa, Muslim Body Demands Apology
An attempt by some students to display their creativity by walking down the ramp in burqas during a fashion show in a Muzaffarnagar college has led to a controversy, with a Muslim body calling for an apology from the institution's authorities.
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Maharashtra Man Asks Woman, Her Daughter To Not Wear Burqa; Arrested
Amid the hijab row in Karnataka and some other parts of the country, a 60-year-old man was held in Akola in Maharashtra for allegedly threatening a woman and her daughter to not wear burkhas, police said on Saturday.
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BJP Issues Showcause Notice To UP Minister Over Burqa Remarks
A day after Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh stoked controversy by demanding a ban on burqa worn by Muslim women, the state BJP too note of his behavior and demanded to know, why he shoul not be expelled.
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Austrian 'Burqa Ban' Confuses Police - And Sharks
Barely a week ago, Austria put in place a new law banning burqa (full Islamic veil) and any face-concealing item in public. But the controversial new law is already causing some confusion. A victim of that confusion was a man dressed like a shark
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Every Indian Woman Will Be In A 'Burqa' If Mahesh Sharma Has His Way: Congress
Hitting out at Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma over his controversial comment that foreign female tourists must refrain from wearing skirts for their own safety, the Congress on Monday asserted that if he had his way, then every woman in the country right now would be wearing a burqa.
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France is Target Of Choice for Jihadists
The bloody attacks in Paris show that France is a target of choice for jihadists due to its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, as well as its controversial ban on the burqa face veil and attitude to Muslims, analysts say.
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Mamta Kulkarni, Controversy's Favourite Child
Mamta's almost-decade long career, though short-lived, was as tumultous as her personal life, with the actress falling in and out of one controversy after another - she posed topless for a glossy magazine in 1993, was slammed with charges under India's obscenity laws and finally convicted in 2000 thus inviting the wrath of conservative Islamic grou...
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Australia Abandons Controversial 'Burqa' Segregation Plan
A controversial plan to make women wearing the burqa or niqab sit in separate glassed public enclosures at Australia's Parliament House due to security concerns was abandoned on Monday after an outcry.
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Europe Rights Court Upholds French Burqa Ban
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's controversial burqa ban, rejecting arguments that outlawing full-face veils breaches religious freedom.
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European Rights Court Upholds French Burqa Ban
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's controversial burqa ban, rejecting arguments that outlawing full-face veils breaches religious freedom.
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French court upholds controversial burqa ban
A French court on Wednesday convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country's controversial burqa ban declared unconstitutional.
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London Mayor Candidate Condemned For Burqa Remarks: "People Hiding Their Faces For Criminal Reasons"
Reform UK's London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham faces widespread criticism after comments linking burqa-wearing women to criminal suspicion, raising concerns about Islamophobia and social division.
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Burqa City Director Fabrice Bracq On Similarities Between His Arabic Film And Laapataa Ladies: "Shocked And Surprised"
On Saturday, Laapataa Ladies writer Biplab Goswami responded to the controversy and claimed that his story is “100% original”
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Laapataa Ladies Writer Biplab Goswami Denies Plagiarism Allegations Amid Comparisons With Arabic Film Burqa City: "Completely Untrue"
Biplab Goswami clarified that he had registered the synopsis of Laapataa Ladies with the Screenwriters Association back in 2014, before the Arabic film was even made
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UP Students Walk Down Ramp In Burqa, Muslim Body Demands Apology
An attempt by some students to display their creativity by walking down the ramp in burqas during a fashion show in a Muzaffarnagar college has led to a controversy, with a Muslim body calling for an apology from the institution's authorities.
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Maharashtra Man Asks Woman, Her Daughter To Not Wear Burqa; Arrested
Amid the hijab row in Karnataka and some other parts of the country, a 60-year-old man was held in Akola in Maharashtra for allegedly threatening a woman and her daughter to not wear burkhas, police said on Saturday.
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BJP Issues Showcause Notice To UP Minister Over Burqa Remarks
A day after Uttar Pradesh Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh stoked controversy by demanding a ban on burqa worn by Muslim women, the state BJP too note of his behavior and demanded to know, why he shoul not be expelled.
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Austrian 'Burqa Ban' Confuses Police - And Sharks
Barely a week ago, Austria put in place a new law banning burqa (full Islamic veil) and any face-concealing item in public. But the controversial new law is already causing some confusion. A victim of that confusion was a man dressed like a shark
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Every Indian Woman Will Be In A 'Burqa' If Mahesh Sharma Has His Way: Congress
Hitting out at Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma over his controversial comment that foreign female tourists must refrain from wearing skirts for their own safety, the Congress on Monday asserted that if he had his way, then every woman in the country right now would be wearing a burqa.
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France is Target Of Choice for Jihadists
The bloody attacks in Paris show that France is a target of choice for jihadists due to its air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, as well as its controversial ban on the burqa face veil and attitude to Muslims, analysts say.
-
Mamta Kulkarni, Controversy's Favourite Child
Mamta's almost-decade long career, though short-lived, was as tumultous as her personal life, with the actress falling in and out of one controversy after another - she posed topless for a glossy magazine in 1993, was slammed with charges under India's obscenity laws and finally convicted in 2000 thus inviting the wrath of conservative Islamic grou...
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Australia Abandons Controversial 'Burqa' Segregation Plan
A controversial plan to make women wearing the burqa or niqab sit in separate glassed public enclosures at Australia's Parliament House due to security concerns was abandoned on Monday after an outcry.
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Europe Rights Court Upholds French Burqa Ban
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's controversial burqa ban, rejecting arguments that outlawing full-face veils breaches religious freedom.
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European Rights Court Upholds French Burqa Ban
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday upheld France's controversial burqa ban, rejecting arguments that outlawing full-face veils breaches religious freedom.
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French court upholds controversial burqa ban
A French court on Wednesday convicted a young woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil in public and threw out her bid to have the country's controversial burqa ban declared unconstitutional.
