The headline “School sacks employee for wearing niqab” jumps off the page, as in the West, a more expected title would be “School sacks employee for criticizing niqab.” This incident happened in Laamu Atoll, an administrative division of the Maldives in Southeast Asia. The reason? The letter sent to her sites clauses in articles 273 […]
UK: Scoutmaster fired for calling niqab “Darth Vader tent”
A Scoutmaster in the UK, Brian Walker, complained about a niqab-wearing canoeist: “Canoeists don’t dress like this; they need all-round unobstructed vision so they protect the group. They will most likely drown wearing that Darth Vader tent.” The Scouting Association fired him, saying that “inclusivity is at the heart of modern scouting and is a […]
Ex-Muslim Says: Ban the Niqab
Life today for Muslim women in the UK is very different from when I was growing up as a Muslim girl in a Muslim household. You know you are getting old when you start talking about ‘the good old days’ in relation to your past, but life in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 70s and 80s […]
Australia: Imam says that women need to wear hijab so that men can control their sexual urges
A hardline Islamic leader says women need to wear the hijab so men can control their sexual urges. Australian rock band member and convert to Islam, Sheikh Zainadine Johnson puts the responsibility of controlling male sexual predators on women, and he cites the Qur’an to do so. There are many who still insist (or believe) […]
Sweden: New books for preschoolers promote polygamy and the niqab
Two new children’s books are released in Sweden….They are called “Grandfather has four wives” and “Grandmother is no ghost.” Just when you thought it could not get any worse in Sweden. The new children’s books are being sold at the Gothenburg Book Fair, promoting polygamy and the wearing of the niqab to children as young […]
Germany bans face coverings for drivers amid claims of anti-Muslim discrimination
Germany has decided to ban face coverings, including the niqab and the burqa, while driving. As expected, some are screaming “discrimination,” a word now used either to ram through an agenda or to pave the way for special allowances for one group over another. The German Transport Ministry said that “the rule of law requires […]
UK: Schoolboy put into “deradicalization” program for saying Muslim women should not be allowed to wear the niqab
“White” appears three times in this article as if it were the natural opposite of “Muslim,” reflecting the British media’s universal tendency to see the jihad threat in racial terms: Muslims are a different race, and those who oppose jihad terror are vehemently suspected of “racism.” The possibility that there could be white Muslims who […]
UK: Police hunting for veiled woman with knife after teenager stabbed to death
It’s likely that what the ever-clueless Daily Mail, the worst paper in the Western world, means by “burka” is actually a niqab, as the latter are far more common in Britain and are often referred to as burkas by people who don’t know one from the other. In any case, the perpetrator’s face was covered, […]
UK: Muslim cleric calls for burqa ban in Britain
An Oxford-based Muslim cleric has called for Britain to ban the burqa, arguing that the wearing of a face veil is not Islamic but the product of a misogynistic culture. He further argues: Since the burqa and niqab are ancient habits and not mentioned in the Koran, it is, therefore, pre-Islamic, not Koranic and ipso […]
Egypt drafts bill to ban face veil for women, says it’s Jewish tradition
Yes, that’s why you see so many Jewish women wearing face veils. But labeling something “Jewish” in Egypt is likely to get more people to oppose it; that could be Amna Nosseir’s strategy. In reality, the niqab and burqa arise from the assumption underlying the idea that a woman must cover her hair. Muhammad did […]