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Syrian Government Changes Mind About Niqabs For Teachers

Ban On Niqabs For Teachers

Last July Syria’s President Bashar-al-Assad banned women teachers from wearing niqabs (full-face veils). Around 1,200 teachers in schools and universities who wore niqabs were quietly removed from schools and transferred to the administrative service, where they would not have contact with students. The move by the secular, or at least nominally secular, [...]

| Friday, April 15, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Others | Leave a comment | | |

Pressure Mounts Against Public Forum On Secularism In France

Public Forum On Secularism

Amidst pressure to scrap next Tuesday’s public forum on secularism, the French Prime Minister,  Francois Fillon, has confirmed that he will not be taking part. Planned by UMP, the ruling political party, the event has been said to be a thinly veiled attempt at Muslim bashing that might help the party win back [...]

| Sunday, April 3, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Insights & Views | Leave a comment | | |

Syria Quietly Bans The Burqa And The Nijab In Schools And Universities

Doing It Quietly The Syrian Way

While attention was being focused on the efforts of European countries to ban full-face veils, Syria, a Middle East country no less, and officially the Syrian Arab Republic, quietly went about its ban on burqas and nijabs, first in schools, then in universities. The hijab (headscarf) is not banned.

School Teachers Surprised [...]

| Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Difficult Questions | Leave a comment | | |