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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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China's Beard, Veil Ban In Xinjiang Comes Into Effect
China has introduced new restrictions in the far-western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism.
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Arabs Flee Gulf Heat For Alpine Idyll, Despite Talk Of Veil Ban
While France's seaside resorts grapple with the clash of cultures posed by Muslim women in "burkinis", a tourist town in the Austrian Alps has grown used to visitors in Islamic dress tip-toeing over its pristine summer snow.
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Faith, politics clash over Muslim-run women's gym in France
A pink and orange all-women's gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and what some view as blatant populism in the run-up to France's municipal elections.
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Tight security after French riots sparked over veil ban
France's interior minister said Sunday security forces would remain in place "as long as necessary" after a second night of violence in the Paris suburbs sparked when police stopped a woman for wearing a veil.
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France officially bans the burqa
France - home to Europe's biggest Muslim population - on Monday officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places.Other European countries have drawn up bans on the burqa and the niqab but France is the first to risk stirring social tensions by putting one into practice.The law comes into effect at an already fraught moment in r...
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Osama warns France over Afghan war, veil ban
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the US-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils.In the tape posted on Al-Jazeera's website, bin Laden said France was aiding the Americans in the killing of Muslim women and children in an ...
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France inches closer to burqa ban
France is set to move one step closer to barring Muslim women from wearing the full Islamic veil with the release of a report calling for a ban on the burqa in public institutions.
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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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China's Beard, Veil Ban In Xinjiang Comes Into Effect
China has introduced new restrictions in the far-western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against Islamist extremism.
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Arabs Flee Gulf Heat For Alpine Idyll, Despite Talk Of Veil Ban
While France's seaside resorts grapple with the clash of cultures posed by Muslim women in "burkinis", a tourist town in the Austrian Alps has grown used to visitors in Islamic dress tip-toeing over its pristine summer snow.
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Faith, politics clash over Muslim-run women's gym in France
A pink and orange all-women's gym has become an unlikely focus of a very French row over Muslim integration, secularism and what some view as blatant populism in the run-up to France's municipal elections.
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Tight security after French riots sparked over veil ban
France's interior minister said Sunday security forces would remain in place "as long as necessary" after a second night of violence in the Paris suburbs sparked when police stopped a woman for wearing a veil.
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France officially bans the burqa
France - home to Europe's biggest Muslim population - on Monday officially banned women from wearing full-face veils in public places.Other European countries have drawn up bans on the burqa and the niqab but France is the first to risk stirring social tensions by putting one into practice.The law comes into effect at an already fraught moment in r...
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Osama warns France over Afghan war, veil ban
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the US-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils.In the tape posted on Al-Jazeera's website, bin Laden said France was aiding the Americans in the killing of Muslim women and children in an ...
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France inches closer to burqa ban
France is set to move one step closer to barring Muslim women from wearing the full Islamic veil with the release of a report calling for a ban on the burqa in public institutions.
