The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), stated that Muslim women should be allowed to access health services while wearing the hijab, but opposed the wearing of ...

Two Muslim women in Portugal who wear the hijab have spoken out against a ban on the burka, saying that it threatens women’s ...

Qatar has given one million dollars to UN Women "in an effort to strengthen its commitment to promoting the empowerment of ...

Portugal’s parliament approved a bill banning face veils like burqas and niqabs in most public spaces. The bill targets veils worn for gender or religious reasons, especially by Muslim women. It ...

Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Robert Jenrick of racism for wanting to ban the burka – a strange ...

The actor Pejman Jamshidi, briefly arrested and then released, left the country for Canada after a young woman accused him of ...

The burka, an all-encompassing veil that hides every inch of a woman’s body including her face, is not a symbol of faith. It ...

Exciting news for the hard Left. So far, efforts to launch a new socialist party – provisionally known as “Your Party” – have ...

How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine? Honestly, I thought ...

The Conservative leader dismissed shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick 's suggestion that the Muslim face veil should be ...