Word: burka
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...what about the rights of Muslim women who honestly feel faith-bound to voluntarily don a burka? Or those prohibited by law from attending public school with the headscarves they wear everywhere else? Why is no one ranting about nuns' habits being "degrading" (as Gerin called the burqa), just as no one lashed out at creeping extremism when then-First Lady Bernadette Chirac covered her head during Vatican visits...
...tree so withered and broken that only a single scarred branch is still struggling heavenwards. Yet all life has not gone: a tiny leaf, green against the cerulean blue of the sky, stubbornly clings to a twig. For the circle of burka-clad women huddling around the forlorn trunk in the hot, dusty sunshine, it is a sign of hope...
...while preppy college students may seem an immeasurable distance away from burka-clad women with tribal tattoos across their faces, soldiers say that Harvard has found a place in Iraq, and Iraq a place at Harvard...
Perhaps the last thing post-Taliban Afghanistan needs is a beauty school. What difference can six American hairdressers make by teaching a group of burka-wearing Afghan women how to do their hair? But according to the new documentary “The Beauty Academy of Kabul,” women’s love of beauty transcends national boundaries and can be used as a successful development tool on the road to peace...
...month ago, a Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani...