Scarves, Veils, Politics and Women

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"BREAKING" BURQAH-RELATED ITEMS 2015-2016

Egypt: Faculty women to sue Cairo University for banning full-face veil for teachers

Netherlands: After 3 years & 2 coalition governments, parliament finally set for burqa bans

Russia: Muslim women in Moscow creating a more positive image of Islam via fashion

UK: Supreme Court rules in favour of Samantha Elauf denied a job by Abercrombie & Fitch over headscarf

India: Kerala High Court permits Muslim girls to wear hijab for medical entrance test

France: Male republicanism which trumped facts re the face veil, spreads to vulnerable prostitutes

2011 "COVERED" EXHIBITIONS IN BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE

2011 FEMINIST CONFERENCES: RELIGION, POLITICS & VEILS

VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2011

VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2012-2014

India: Growing male alcoholism stirs Haryana women to defy marital violence, even discarding veils

Turkey: Women resist token govt reforms which have long disallowed Kurds their mother tongue

Syria: Heroic creativity & resilience of women in building peace and democracy escape political & media eyes

India: The turban both a symbol of identity & a ‘visual shield’ for women

Turkey: Female MPs don headscarves to mark the end of ban emphatically imposed since the early days of the Republic

India :Courageous 'Daughter of the Sea',Jazeera Vadakkan, undaunted by abuse & threats from Kerala’s all-powerful sand mafia

UK: Sahar Al Faifi answers the imperative for the voices of the face-veiled Muslim women to be heard

Iran: Shirin Gerami, wearing full Islamic attire, creates history in London triathlon grand final

Sweden: Thousands of women from all walks of faith don the veil after assault on hijab-attired pregnant woman

Palestine: Women’s Group in Nablus takes culturally sensitive approaches in quest for gender equity

Egypt: Words of Women project documents women’s leading role in country’s January 25 Revolution

Kyrgyzstan: Women see new popularity of Hijab as about responsibility before Allah, faith & choice

Pakistan: Women rally against Govt apathy towards Hazara killings and insecurity

UK: New Muslim Suffragettes face death threats & fatwas for providng tortured & abused sisters with refuge

"BREAKING" BURQAH-RELATED NEWS 2014

France: French burqa ban being both unequal & biased breeds Religious Intolerance

China: Mounting dress code repression from Xinjiang claims Uighur women as its first victims

Australia:   Qld Independent MP Peter Wellington's Identification Laws amendment bill dumped

Tajikistan: Education ministry equates Muslim headscarf with militant security threats

Canada: Report finds that women’s reasons for wearing the nijab are highly personal & individual

UK: Judge warns jury against prejudice after granting Muslim women her face veil entitlement

Global: A woman is more than her clothes, but her Islamic dress also about both choice & fashion

UK: Former justice secretary Ken Clarke [most unhelpfully] sledges court witness veils as “bags”

Read also: Ignore the Ukip bigotry and allow women to choose the attire compatible with their own beliefs

and: Shun France’s burqa ban  which both curbs liberty and subjects women to violent religious hatred

Sudan: Woman’s headscarf prosecution typifies c ountries where governments rregulating the wearing of religious symbols & attire

UK: Of 5,000 converting to Islam annually, most are women seeking an increased spiritual fulfillment

 UK: Despite PM Cameron’s approval, Birmingham College forced to retract veil ban

Read also: Wearing a veil in Britain, rather than mandatory, is a woman’s choice

Canada: Quebec Charter widely seen as divisive rather than creating religious harmony

Australia: Anti-migrant Liberal Ray King conjures link between burqa tradition & criminality

US: Lady Gaga’s burqa antics probably inappropriate, but perhaps amusing for Muslim women

Australia: The first AFL umpire to wear a hijab, Melbourne schoolgirl makes history before thousands of fans

France: Heavy-handed police enforcement of veil ban stirs Paris riots

France: Veiled pregnant women assaulted by skinheads causing one to miscarry

Sudan: Exhibition of colourful clothing and trendy fashion sense of women in Darfur

France: Hollande seeks political points via a broadening of headscarf restrictions

India: Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s visit to St. Ann's College for Women in Hyderabad sees scarf-wearing students banished to rear

Iran: Govt stations morality police in Tehran to arrest women for dress & cosmetic transgressions

Global: Rather than to the burqa, the roots of female oppression lie in economic, political, & social discrimination and violence against women

Global: Face veils no risk to State foundations, while other ostensible excuses for bans almost laughable yet succeed in provoking racist violence

Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority, edited by Masooda Bano & Hilary Kalmbach

France: Muslim woman defends right to wear burqa at European Court of Human Rights

Europe: Amnesty Report condemns burqa bans for denying Muslim women jobs and education

India: Compliance with college uniform does not imply a burqa ban at Mangalore Colleges

France: President Hollande to retain burqa ban. Vows instead to ‘have it applied in the best way'

Turkmenistan: Bride price raises value of daughters, but wedding veil ensures brides remain faceless

France: Niqab ban subjects Muslim women to private imprisonment & increased public violence

Turkey: Alâ Magazine becomes the warmlyly welcomed avant-garde of "Tesettür," or "Veiled" fashion

Canada: Citizenship & Immigration Minister Jason Kenney bans women’s veils when taking citizenship oath

But also read: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s ban on women’s veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is ham-handed, absurd & unnecessary

Arab Spring: Feminists live in fear of rollback of rights granted under past dictatorships

Yemen: Women torch their makrama to globally expose tyrant Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 'bloody massacres'

Tunisia: Women watch in horror as Western do-gooders & Islamic fundamentalists rejoice first free election

Norway: Yemen's veiled mother of the revolution acclaimed as joint 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate

The Netherlands: Ban on Islamic face veils reflect influence of Freedom Party's anti-migrant bigot Geert Wilders

France: Interior Minister, Claude Gueant, hails prejudice extending bans to outdoor Muslim prayers

France: Businessman, Rachid Nekkaz, sets up fund to pay fines for European women choosing to wear banned Islamic veils

Australia: Ban-the-Burqa-Liberal, Senator Cory Bernardi, also in league with Dutch anti-Islamic Geert Wilders

Australia: Ban the Burqa Rallies disingenuously designed to fuel racism & religious intolerance in the name of security

Read also: US allegations of "veiled" women from Australia being recruited by al-Qaeda disputed as fabricated news

and: Australian Women accept Sharia Law where application "fair" to all parties

France: Sarkozy’s burqa ban a windfall for London at the expense of Paris retailers

Jordan: Iranian women’s soccer team unfairly & cruelly banned from playing Olympic qualifier

UK: Confronting Anti-Muslim Hatred with Organized Resistance to Burqah Bans

France: Under Sarkozy’s (Xenophobic) Veil

A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed

Secularism vs communalism: learning from the ban on full face covering veil in France by MariemeHelie Lucas

France: Excessive burqa law risks turning 'wearing the veil' into a national 'anti-Sarkozy symbol'

Towards A Future Without Fundamentalisms: Analyzing Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses by Cassandra Balchin

Belgium: "Take Two" of efforts to punish women for even partial covering of face in public

As in German, former Bundesbank banker, come author, Thilo Sarrazin also comes across as a white supremicist/racist in English

France: In bid for racist vote, Le Petit Sarkozy outlaws face veils for residents & tourists

India: Europe's burqa intolerance perpetuates false stereotypes which devalue Muslim women

Dr Huma Ahmed-Ghosh: Dilemmas of Islamic and Secular Feminists and Feminisms

Israel: Protests mount as the Taliban Haredi, ultra-religious women, adopt the burqa for “modesty‘s sake”

Iraq: Since US-led invasion, women’s attire marks the ascendancy of religious values in a once secular society

Germany: Frankfurt case set to reignite national debate on permitted public attire for Muslim women

Iran: Some universities placed on notice to enforce stricter Islamic dress code for both female and male students

Walking a Tightrope: Women and Veiling in the United Kingdom by Ayesha Salma Kariapper