Sentences with phrase «islamic face veils»

Others are even more radical and vocal, stating the bill should go further and call for a complete ban on the wearing of the niqab or burqa Islamic face veils, similar to what certain European countries are doing.

Sir Michael says inspectors can rate schools inadequate if wearing Islamic face veils are a «barrier to learning».

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French police arrested two veiled women protesting the country's law banning face - hiding Islamic burqas and niqabs Monday, just hours after the legislation took effect.

David Johnston, author of Earth, Empire and Sacred Text, Christine Schirrmacher, a scholar with the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and Joseph Cumming, director of the reconciliation program at Yale Divinity School, discuss whether Christians should support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public.