Word: headscarf
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...this point, no Muslim defenders of the rare French burqa have emerged. Indeed, Dounia Bouzar, a specialist on Muslim affairs, notes that while she and many fellow Muslims opposed the headscarf ban as meddling in private matters of choice, she is relieved at action taken on the burqa. "Imposition of this garment on women is one manner Salafists get individuals to renounce their individuality and submit to the extremist cult thinking that masquerades as Islam - but which is an abomination of it," Bouzar says. "That Salafist influence and activity is spreading, and if it takes political action to prevent their...
...Israeli far right - many of whose supporters gathered yesterday outside the U.S. consulate with portraits of Obama with a Palestinian headscarf superimposed on his head, with the words "Jew-hater" written beneath - is unlikely to be swayed by Obama's balanced oratory. Even among moderate Israelis, there is a doubt about Obama's intentions. "His middle name, Hussein, keeps coming back to me. We're suspicious of him," says Yossi Danon, a high-tech expert. "Obama's entitled to change U.S. policy in the region - this is too much for Israel." (See Cairo getting ready for Obama...
...Ansari, dressed in a matching beige and gray track suit and polo shirt, stared at his wife during most of the proceedings. A delicate, petite woman wearing a long gray and black robe and a black flowered headscarf, Yasmin Ansari addressed the court twice this morning on behalf of her husband, speaking firmly but slightly nervously in Urdu from behind the veil covering her face. "I am trying," she said, when questioned by the judge about her efforts to find a new lawyer for her husband. Fahim Ansari has previously expressed his wish to find his own lawyer, but complained...
...because her friends in Baghdad had told her they could not meet her at the airport. She would have to take a taxi or bus to a square nearby and meet them. There were only a handful of women on the plane, and Iman pointed to one in a headscarf seated ahead of us. "I asked this lady if she could show me how to do it," Iman told me, "but she said no. The people here do not want to trust anyone...
...courtroom) became a real criminal charge (fighting with an officer). This charge was not only proven false by later investigation, but was totally unwarranted in the first place. Nor was Valentine’s sentence—a ten-day jail sentence and a mandate to remove her headscarf outside of the courtroom—appropriate. Asking a Muslim woman or an Orthodox Jewess to remove her headscarf in public is like asking her to disrobe or to expose herself. In an appalling misuse of the judicial system’s power, Valentine was asked...