| Lately after the incident of him speaking freely to my brother in laws wives I felt like not wearing my niqab anymore. |
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| Soon, Azza went further and put on the niqab, the veil that covers a woman's face below the eyes. |
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| The multiculturalism debate raging across Europe and the new French ban against the niqab. |
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| Once accustomed to, the niqab is certainly not inconvenient. |
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| And while wearing a niqab may send some observers into a high dudgeon, it impairs neither their civil interests nor their religious ones. |
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| I was cast aside on various counts: I am a disabled person, I am from the Maghreb, and I wear the niqab. |
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| However, a general prohibition of wearing the burqa and the niqab would deny women, who freely desire to do so, their right to cover their face. |
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| The issue came up when two students attending a high school in Oslo starting wearing their niqab to class. |
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| For example, making assumptions about women who wear a hijab or niqab that get in the way of seeing a particular woman for who she really is. |
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| This problem of anonymity is one of the prime reasons the niqab was banned in France and some other European countries. |
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| One occasionally spies women wearing the niqab with designer sunglasses over their eyes, especially in the blingy Emirates. |
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| When I decided to remove the niqab in 2002, I faced a bitter war with my family and society. |
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| My National Post column reflects on the Canadian Supreme Court's ambiguous ruling on the niqab. |
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| In parts of the West, rightly so, politicians such as French President Nicholas Sarkozy oppose the niqab. |
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| No one is discussing the spread of the niqab and its symbolism. |
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| The burqa and a smaller type of face mask, the niqab, has been banned by municipal injunction in the cities and towns of Ghent, Antwerp, Sint-Truiden, Lebbeke and Maaseik. |
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| David Blunkett's blindness would not disbar him from communicating with a niqab wearer, but Jack Straw's deafness does. |
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| A new law violates the rights to freedom of expression and religion of women who wear the burqa or the niqab as an expression of their identity. |
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| Natalie Seeve Liverpool Gaby Hinsliff deserves praise for picking up on human interaction methods as they apply to disabled people, but in discussing the niqab she picked the wrong disability. |
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| On 12 December 2011, the Canadian government banned the niqab in citizenship ceremonies. |
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| Instead of discussing such problems seriously, we have had a debate about methods to penalise women wearing the niqab and to prevent the building of minarets. |
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| Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian faced a backlash on social media after posting a picture of herself wearing a niqab while working in Dubai. |
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| Prohibition of the burqa and the niqab would not liberate oppressed women, but might instead lead to their further alienation in European societies. |
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| Of course, not all feminists are so stridently opposed to niqab. |
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| Mr Justice Silber stressed that he was dealing with one particular case, not the wider issue of whether the niqab should be worn in schools or elsewhere. |
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| For this reason, the possibility to prohibit the wearing of the burqa and the niqab is being considered by legislatures in several European countries. |
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| But to the French, who fought hard-won battles against authoritarian clericalism, it stems from a secular wish to keep religion in the private sphere. Yet today's concerns about the niqab go far beyond secularism. |
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| In the niqab case, the Supreme Court faced a painful problem. |
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| Few women wore the hijab, let alone the burqa or niqab. |
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| The husband said that the police officers told him the niqab was banned in Belgium and had to check his and his wife's identity. |
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