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Anti-Burqa Bill Passes Lower House In France As expected, the 557-seat French National Assembly, the lower house, voted overwhelmingly for the bill to ban full-face veils in public. There were 335 votes for and 1 against. The Socialists and the Greens abstained. The Socialists are said to favor a ban but only in specific places. Before the [...] Present Case Of Fine For Driving Wearing A Niqab Police in Vaucluse in southern France stopped a car that was being driven erratically, and found that the driver was wearing a niqab. The headscarf was obviously “bothering the driver in her manoeuvres”, said a spokesman. She was fined €22 ($29) for driving with a reduced field of [...] The French Declaration On The Full-Face Veil Recently the French National Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution against the full-face veil. This symbolic gesture brings the country a step nearer a ban on the full veil. The National Assembly’s declaration states that “Radical practices which violate the dignity and equality between men and women, such as the wearing [...] Muslim Husband Admits Having Mistresses But Denies It’s Polygamy How true the old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. 35-year old Algerian-born Muslim Frenchman Lies Hebbadj finds himself in the center of a political storm over the issue of polygamy. With French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux and Immigration Minister Eric Besson both threatening to strip Lies Hebbadj of his [...] The Incident In Northern Italy Just as the publicity over the bill banning full-face veils in Belgium is starting to settle, Italy hits the headlines with a Tunisian-born woman being fined Euro 500 for wearing a burqa in a post office in Novara, in the north-western part of the country. The 26-year-old woman, Amel Marmouri, and her [...] Have you ever wondered who exactly is this Saudi poetess Hissa Hilal? She is taking the Arab world by storm with her performances in the Abu Dhabi TV idol-like Million’s Poet Contest. To be sure, no one outside her family has seen her face. She appears on TV weaing a niqab, face veiled. But she makes [...] What is the difference between higab and niqab? The higab is the headscarf that covers the hair. The niqab on the other hand, covers the entire face, with slits for the eyes to see through. It is said that 80% of Egypt’s women poplulation wears the higab. But the Egyptian government is worried that increasing number of its [...] |
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