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We don't want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban's return
When the troops withdraw from Afghanistan next year, many fear a terrible backlash. Tracy McVeigh meets seven women who rebuilt their lives after...
Banning the burqa: an assault on freedom
Unfortunately, both France and some of its critics seem driven by a desire to police people's thoughts. On the day that France’s ban on the...
Banning the burqa: a bad idea ...
...whose time may soon come in parts of Europe. When Jack Straw, a British Labour politician, said a few years ago that he would prefer Muslim women...
Let's face facts, the burqa is an affront to feminism
Who knows the difference between ethics and morality? Belgium does, for one. Technically, there's not a lot in it. The dictionary makes ethics and...
Hidden danger in tampering with the veil
Like the Americans waging war in Afghanistan, the French demanding their government ban the burka would do well to look back in history at the...
In search of Frenchness
The Sarkozy government's debates on national identity peddle the same old story about the enemy within – French Muslims. The nationwide debate...
The Taliban would applaud
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil,...
Not being racist, but burka is wrong
I confess that I once fell over on the job. In 2001, I was sent near the Pakistan border to interview fleeing Afghans and the local imam asked me to...
French move to fine women for wearing burqa
Muslim women who wear the full Islamic veil in France will face a possible 750 euros ($A1175) fine, according to a draft bill unveiled on Thursday by...
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