Niqab controversy: Judge struck down ban without referring to charter; Jason Kenney, who first issued the policy directive in 2011 when he was immigration minister, ...

Muslims, many of whom originate from nearby Turkey, Bosnia and Kosovo, make up around 5 percent of the 8.6 million Swiss population. Of this, at most 37 women in Switzerland wear a niqab, a veil ...

Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan TV it has now become the norm.

Leaders from different religions gathered in St. John's on Thursday and were united in their belief that wearing of the niqab should not be getting so much attention during the federal election.

A 28-year-old woman wearing a niqab on Friday became the first person in Denmark to be fined for violating a new controversial law banning full-face Islamic veils in public places, media reported.

I promised myself that I would wear the niqab if I ever married. I came to Canada in 2008 and worked at Taliba, a Filipino-Canadian newspaper. I met and married my husband in Canada a few years later.

Islamic authorities in Russia’s mostly-Muslim North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Wednesday temporarily banned women from wearing the niqab full-face veil, after simultaneous attacks targeting ...

Out of 35 million people in Canada, Stephen Harper has chosen to single out for verbal abuse one lone, niqab-wearing Mississauga woman, Zunera Ishaq. Skip to main content. Search.

The niqab is largely worn by women of ultra-conservative backgrounds. The ban was introduced in 2015 by a previous head of Cairo University, two years after the 2013 military ouster of Islamist ...

“If it is outside the office, wearing the niqab is each citizen’s fashion right,” the minister said, adding that all workers should wear their uniforms. An Indonesian student reads the Koran ...

Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar University has barred students from wearing face-veils, or the niqab, in female-only classrooms and dormitories. Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar University has barred ...