Category Archives: Niqab (face-covering)

Hargey attacks Islam along with the “burqa”

I don’t watch al-Jazeera English (although I can get it, part-time, on Freeview) but saw this clip of David Frost interviewing Taj Hargey and Salma Yaqoob over the recently-introduced ban on the niqaab in France on YouTube. The debate in … Continue reading

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Niqab experiments: don’t do it!

Someone asked on DeenPort earlier today for advice to give to a female Christian friend who wants to do an experiment by wearing niqaab, the face-covering worn by some Muslim women, for a day. My advice was very simply “don’t … Continue reading

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Posted in Disability, Interfaith, Niqab (face-covering) | 4 Comments

France niqaab ban “not meant to help women”

France’s ban on the Islamic veil has little to do with female emancipation | Law | guardian.co.uk Joan Wallach Scott, the author of The Politics of the Veil, on the real motivation behind the move to ban the niqaab in … Continue reading

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Posted in Europe, Islamophobia, Niqab (face-covering) | 6 Comments

Muslim country bans niqaab shock!

This didn’t quite come too late for yesterday’s entry on niqaab, but that was dragging on too long and I had an appointment this morning that I should have been preparing for while I was writing it. However, there was … Continue reading

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Posted in Niqab (face-covering) | 16 Comments

Nessie allows bigoted ‘debate’ about niqaab

This morning Vanessa Feltz, the host of the BBC London morning phone-in show, had among her topics the question of whether the so-called burqa should be banned (you can listen to it, if you’re in the UK, here until next … Continue reading

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Norman Geras demolishes Hitchens on niqab ban (partly)

I was directed by Islamophobia Watch to an article on Normblog taking apart Christopher Hitchen’s arguments on the Slate website in favour of banning the niqaab in France and elsewhere. The Belgian parliament has already approved a ban, the French … Continue reading

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JPost editorial tells Europe how to deal with Muslim women

Jerusalem Post: Rejecting the burka As Muslims it’s been our recent experience that many of the voices raised loudest against Muslims in the west have connections to Israel, particularly in the United States but also in the UK; they include … Continue reading

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Posted in Media, Niqab (face-covering), Palestine, Phillips, Melanie | 2 Comments

Niqaab and rickets in the UK

Today I found a post at the blog The Answer’s 42 alleging that the so-called burqa was to blame for the increased incidence of vitamin D deficiency in Asian women in the UK and resulting rickets in their children. The … Continue reading

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Posted in Health, Niqab (face-covering) | 32 Comments

Muslim women driving, and contrasts on niqab

I didn’t watch the Muslim Driving School programme, which was on BBC2 last Tuesday (at the right time to clash with Defamation, which I reviewed in my last entry), but I finally got round to seeing it just now, and … Continue reading

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Posted in Community, Converts, Media, Niqab (face-covering), Reviews | Tagged , , | 16 Comments

How the 2006 niqab affair popularised the BNP

Gary Younge in today’s Guardian traces the upsurge in anti-Muslim bigotry to Jack Straw’s attack on the niqab in 2006: Three years ago this month Jack Straw argued his case for urging Muslim women who attend his MP’s surgery to … Continue reading

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Posted in Far right, Media, Niqab (face-covering) | 5 Comments

Shelina Zahra takes on anti-hijabists

Last Friday and last Sunday, Shelina Zahra Janmohamed appeared on BBC Radio debating the issue of hijab with two foreign anti-hijab agitators. One of them is part of London’s small but well-connected Iranian exile community, namely Diana Nammi; the other … Continue reading

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Posted in Niqab (face-covering), Women | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Tantawi: the Italian bigots’ imam

Much as I suspected that the snake Tantawi’s words would be thrown in the faces of Muslims in the West, this has now happened, as an MP from Silvio Berlusconi’s political machine “People of Freedom” has cited him as justification … Continue reading

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A powerful man humiliates a young girl

Yesterday it was reported that Muhammad Tantawi, the dean of al-Azhar University in Egypt, announced that he was going to issue an “edict” banning the niqab or female facial veil. This happened after he visited a girls’ school, and found … Continue reading

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Digital Niqabi on fitna and niqab

The sister known as Digital Nomad has posted two interesting entries recently, the most recent on this nonsense of condemning mobile phones as a cause of fitna and fornication. This is not just within the Muslim community — Haredi Jews … Continue reading

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Posted in News, Niqab (face-covering) | 1 Comment

What are the shibboleths of ignorance about Islam?

I’ve been getting a lot of tweets lately about talk of a ban on the so-called burqa in France, the latest chapter in the long saga of the French obsession with what Muslim women wear on their heads (Muslim responses: … Continue reading

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Posted in Islam, Media, Niqab (face-covering) | 32 Comments

Sister Ardo responds to “Blog Niqaab”

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Posted in Niqab (face-covering) | 7 Comments

The fallacy of multiculturalism helping terrorism

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Posted in Niqab (face-covering), Terrorism | 14 Comments

Cameron on “British values”

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Posted in Community, Media, Niqab (face-covering) | 8 Comments

Khadijah Atkinson’s alternative Christmas message

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Posted in Media, Niqab (face-covering) | 10 Comments

Nazir-Ali jumps in on veil

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