No matter how much Syria tries , They will still be looked upon as Terrorists .
But it is funny that a Muslim country along with a Cleric are banning Face veils .
BBC
Female students wearing a full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses, the country's minister of higher education has said.
Ghiyath Barakat was reported to have said that the practice ran counter to the academic values and traditions of Syrian universities.
His ruling, published on the All4Syria website, was said to be in response to requests from students and parents.
The issue of full face veils has caused controversy in other countries.
"This decision could be seen as a step by the government to enforce its secular identity."
In 2009, Egypt's then foremost Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, barred female students from wearing the full-face veil at the al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's centre of learning and scholarship.
He also upset other Muslim scholars by saying French Muslims should obey any law that France might enact banning the veil.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Syria bans face veils at universities
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public
Andre Gerin of the Communist opposition compared the veil to "a walking coffin, a muzzle".
A walking Coffin ! that's a good one .
So now the waiting game , September's not far away , And I'm sure that preparations for some Rioting are being taken .
BBC
France's lower house of parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would ban wearing the Islamic full veil in public.
There were 335 votes for the bill and only one against in the 557-seat National Assembly.
It must now be ratified by the Senate in September to become law.
The ban has strong public support but critics point out that only a tiny minority of French Muslims wear the full veil.
Many of the opposition Socialists, who originally wanted the ban limited only to public buildings, abstained from voting after coming under pressure from feminist supporters of the bill.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has backed the ban as part of a wider debate on French identity but critics say the government is pandering to far-right voters.
After the vote, Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said it was a victory for democracy and for French values.
"Values of freedom against all the oppressions which try to humiliate individuals; values of equality between men and women, against those who push for inequality and injustice."
Monday, June 14, 2010
Niqab wearing woman ticketed for erratic driving
A French woman, wearing a full niqab, was pulled over by police for erratic driving.
Maybe that's why woman aren't allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. ABC
French police have fined a woman driver for erratic driving caused by her Islamic headscarf, just weeks after a similar incident sparked a major political row.
Police in Vaucluse in southern France had not stopped the driver for wearing the niqab, a veil that leaves only the eyes exposed, but for "erratic" driving, commanding officer Charles Bourillon said.
Mr Bourillon says officers decided to check the vehicle after it showed erratic behaviour on the road and it was only when they signalled for the driver to stop that they saw she was wearing a niqab.
"[The headscarf] was bothering the driver in her manoeuvres ... It was obvious she could not see a thing," he said.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Swiss reject headscarf ban for schools
Too bad. They were doing so well in setting the parameters for Muslim assimilation in Switzerland.
From RNW:
The cantonal parliament of Zurich rejected on Monday a proposal by the far right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) – Switzerland’s largest party - to ban headscarves for female Muslim students in Swiss schools. The proposal was aimed at “instilling respect of Swiss values in schools”, the party’s leadership says, and that people who settled in Switzerland needed to realise “they could not turn up to work in a headscarf”.
Adrian Amstutz, parliamentarian and senior member of the SVP is one of the strongest supporters of those bans: “Muslims must be spurred to integrate into society”, he said to Swiss News Worldwide. The more moderate, centre right Christian Democratic Party, has been advocating the ban on burqas, a body covering including a face veil, in a bid to defend women’s rights.
Interestingly enough, Egypt recently banned the niqab during university examinations. You can guess why...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Indonesia: Slaves to fashion - sharia style
Cover up or be caned, ladies! Demand and prices for "conforming Muslim clothes" is skyrocketing. ---->
From the Jakarta Globe (h/t Jeffrey Imm at R.E.A.L.)
“I have to replace my clothes with skirts and Muslim outfits [that are long-sleeved and loose],” 20-year-old Rahma said last Tuesday. “I don’t want to be arrested by the Wilayatul Hisbah [Shariah police] when they really implement the new law.”
The district of West Aceh will begin enforcing a new regulation in January that will strictly forbid Muslims, especially women, to wear tight clothes. M Nur Juned, head of West Aceh district’s Shariah division, said in a telephone interview with the Jakarta Globe on Thursday that authorities would regulate the clothes that people were allowed to wear.
Read the rest at Dinah Lord.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Girls forced to wear hijab at Hamas run schools
Wait a minute...I thought women were free to choose to wear the hijab. AFP
GAZA CITY — Schoolgirls in Hamas-run Gaza have been told to wear traditional full-length robes and headscarves in what is being seen as the latest move towards enforcing conservative Islam in the besieged enclave.
In numerous girls' schools in the Palestinian territory, which reopened their doors on Sunday following the summer recess, students were told they would be sent home if they do not conform with clothing regulations.
"We invite all schoolgirls to wear the jilbab," a senior official in the Hamas education ministry, Mahmud Abu Hassira, told AFP. The jilbab is a traditional, long, loose-fitting robe worn by women in some Muslim countries.
Muslim sues judge over order to remove hijab
A 32 year old Raneen Albaghdady is suing a Michigan judge after he told her to remove her hijab in his courtroom. Albaghdady claims that the judge violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion.
Islamic apologists and some prominent islamic groups have claimed in the past that the hijab is not mandated by islamic law. If it isn't mandated that Albaghdady can take the hijab off without violating her religious practices.
But all of a sudden the hijab is compulsory when it is convienent to creep shariah law through the back door.Breitbart
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A Muslim woman on Wednesday sued a Michigan judge for telling her to remove her headscarf in his courtroom, claiming he violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion.Always beware when CAIR is involved.
Raneen Albaghdady, 32, says she felt humiliated when Wayne County Circuit Judge William Callahan ordered her to remove her hijab at a June 16 hearing in his Detroit courtroom.
"This is the country and the land of freedom, and we're not supposed to be treated like this for the scarf," the Dearborn Heights woman said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon at the Southfield headquarters of the Council on American-Islamic Relation's Michigan chapter, which joined in the federal lawsuit against Callahan and Wayne County.
Callahan says Albaghdady, a native of Iraq, removed the scarf without protest and never mentioned its religious significance. If she had, he said, she would have been allowed to continue wearing it.[...]
The suit asks a federal judge to order judges in Wayne County to allow the wearing of the headscarf in court.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Judge can order veil removed
A little sanity from Canada's supreme court. However, I think the ruling has left a loop hole. The Toronto Star
A judge at a preliminary hearing has the authority to order a complainant in a sexual assault case to remove her veil while testifying if he or she believes it's not being worn for religious reasons, a just-released court ruling says.So, in other words if the religious belief of the person is strong enough then the judge will not have authority to order the niqab removed.
Last fall, Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman ordered a Muslim woman to testify with her face bared after finding her "religious belief is not that strong . . . and that it is, as she says, a matter of comfort."[...]
However, Marrocco refused to grant the woman's order permitting her to wear her niqab while testifying once the preliminary hearing resumes.
Instead, Marrocco says Weisman will have to conduct another hearing about the issue since he didn't explore it far enough before making his decision.
"The failure to explore the limits and exceptions of the applicant's professed religious belief may have resulted in the preliminary inquiry judge mischaracterizing the applicant's evidence as an assertion that wearing the veil was a matter of comfort," Marrocco wrote.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lawsuit Jihad: Muslim woman sues college over veil ban
Suing the Western world to submit to islam. The LocalA Stockholm woman has reported an adult education college in Spånga to the Equality Ombudsman (DO) after being told that she could not wear an Islamic headscarf in class.
The woman was told on January 15th that she was no longer welcome at Västerort Vuxengymnasium, an adult education college in Spånga, if she persisted in wearing her niqab. The niqab is part of a hijab headress and covers the entire face except for the eyes.
The woman has now reported the matter to the Equality Ombudsman (DO) alleging discrimination.
In her report to DO dated January 20th, the woman alleges that she was told that she could not wear her niqab in class or in contact with the school's staff.
The woman explains that the school justified its decision by referring to a recent decision by the National Agency for Education (Skolverket) which banned the wearing of some Muslim headscarves in class.
Friday, October 3, 2008
British Teachers want Headscarves Banned
In a recent poll, nearly 50% of British teachers said schools should ban muslim headscares. They argue the headscares went against British values. The research also found that 70% of teachers agreed that one of their primary roles is to promote British values. TelegraphForty-six percent of primary and secondary school teachers suggested that allowing pupils to wear religious symbols went against British values.
They also feared it would undermine the drive to promote religious and racial harmony in schools.
The findings, in a poll carried out by YouGov, will fuel the controversial debate about the wearing of religious symbols in schools.
Currently, individual schools are free to make their own decisions, but a string of recent court ruling said some policies amounted to "unlawful discrimination".
