Social media in Hindu-majority India is awash with misinformation targeting Muslims, with recent posts mocking cricket ...

The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

For centuries, women have fought to be seen, to be heard, and to be treated as equals. We’ve battled to step out of the ...

Portugal’s Parliament, in a landmark vote on October 17, approved a highly controversial bill prohibiting face veils like ...

NIGEL Farage today suggested he supports banning the burka – as Tory shadow ministers continued tying themselves in knots on ...

Two Muslim women in Portugal who wear the hijab have spoken out against a ban on the burka, saying that it threatens women’s ...

Reporting from CANBERRA, Australia Reporting from CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her ...

PARIS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Muslim burqa would not be welcome in France, calling the full-body religious gown a sign of the “debasement” of women. In the first presidential ...

PARIS, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The French minister for urban regeneration, a Muslim woman, says the country should outlaw the burka, which she calls a symbol of oppression. Fadela Amara, a descendant of ...

Haridwar: A case of moral policing has come to light from Uttarakhand's Haridwar. A burqa-clad woman was surrounded and ...

France’s “burqa wars” have reached a crucial stage after French Prime Minister François Fillon last week asked the Council of State to help draft a law banning the Islamic veil, or burqa. The prime ...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader ...