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Canada's Quebec Says No Public Services For Those With Face Veils
Canada's Quebec province Wednesday prohibited government workers and anyone receiving government services from covering their face, in a move critics say unfairly targets Muslim women who wear a niqab veil.
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Calls For French Women's Minister To Quit Over Veil 'Slavery' Row
France's women's rights minister faced growing criticism today, including calls on social media to resign, after comparing women who wear the Muslim headscarf and veil to "negroes who supported slavery".
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Violence, Threats, Prompt More Muslim Women in Britain to Wear a Veil
When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was time to take a stand - and she started to wear a headscarf.
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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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Australian law proposes Muslim women must remove veils
Women wearing the burqa in the Australian state of New South Wales may have to remove their veils and reveal their faces to the police, starting next week.
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New Australian law to make Muslims lift veils
Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim immig...
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Canada's Quebec Says No Public Services For Those With Face Veils
Canada's Quebec province Wednesday prohibited government workers and anyone receiving government services from covering their face, in a move critics say unfairly targets Muslim women who wear a niqab veil.
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Calls For French Women's Minister To Quit Over Veil 'Slavery' Row
France's women's rights minister faced growing criticism today, including calls on social media to resign, after comparing women who wear the Muslim headscarf and veil to "negroes who supported slavery".
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Violence, Threats, Prompt More Muslim Women in Britain to Wear a Veil
When youth worker Sumreen Farooq was abused in a London street, the 18-year-old decided it was time to take a stand - and she started to wear a headscarf.
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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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Australian law proposes Muslim women must remove veils
Women wearing the burqa in the Australian state of New South Wales may have to remove their veils and reveal their faces to the police, starting next week.
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New Australian law to make Muslims lift veils
Muslim women would have to remove veils and show their faces to police on request or risk a prison sentence under proposed new laws in Australia's most populous state that have drawn criticism as culturally insensitive.A vigorous debate that the proposal has triggered reflects the cultural clashes being ignited by the growing influx of Muslim immig...
