Sentences with phrase «not niqab»

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Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

Niqab / burka: Both of these are not mandatory in Islam.

Forcing a woman to wear a niqab or a burqa will be punishable by a year in prison or a 15,000 - euro ($ 19,000) fine, the government said, calling it «a new form of enslavement that the republic can not accept on its soil.»

«We shouldn't tolerate sharia law in Aust and the burqa / niqab shouldn't be worn in public,» he tweeted.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

I have been concerned for some time about the niqab and the burqa, but it was not until I took my children to the play area in my local park recently and saw a woman wearing a full burqa that it came home to me how inappropriate and, frankly, offensive it is for people to wear that apparel in the 21st century and especially in Britain.

Stereotypes of Muslims as benefit scroungers, «aliens» or «other» - as niqab wearers and immigrants who don't belong here - take a long time to shake.

In this context, the headscarf or burqa or niqab is not a free choice of women but is a rule that is imposed on them by their family or community.

«It is a shame that the niqab - the full face veil that a minority of Muslim women wear - has become a polarising issue when it need not be.»

MICHAEL MINELLI LOS ANGELES MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY The head of a nurse, an Arab woman in Niqab, and a cicatrized, monocled Daddy Warbucks - like man stare at the viewer blankly, not even asking, in...

Justices Louis LeBel and Marshall Rothstein concurred with the judgment on dismissing the appeal, but argued for «a clear rule that niqabs may not be worn at any stage of the criminal trial» in the interests of openness and religious neutrality.

She argued that unless a witness's face is directly relevant - for example, when her identity is in question - she should not be required to remove her niqab.

She says: «if [Muslim women] believe that they will be required to remove their niqabs or put through a demeaning and humiliating process before having a determination of whether or not they can wear their niqabs while testifying, they're simply not going to report [sexual assaults].»

Wearing a niqab in the courtroom does not facilitate acts of communication.

The trial judge refused to let N.S. wear the niqab on the grounds that she had not proven that her religious faith was sufficiently strong to justify it.

For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.

There are lots of people out there with illiberal secular and gender equality - based worldviews that object to the niqab on the basis of a political philosophy that (while you and I don't agree with that philosophy) has nothing to do with specific animus towards Islam.

I may not like the religious fundamentalism inherent in the niqab and the burqa but politically I'm reluctant to tell people what to do and legally I can't see this law going anywhere.

Note that I do not mention religion because I have been made aware that wearing the niqab may have nothing to do with the religion of Islam and may not stand up under the religious defense.

It doesn't matter one iota if the niqab is truly a requirement of Islam.

The strongest legal argument in favour of a ban on niqab's and burqa's would be on the basis of security (i.e. there is a legitimate state objective in preventing people from obscuring ones identity in public), but after the Gubaj Singh kirpan case I don't see that flying.

They are not the same thing as a rule prohibiting the niqab.

Many niqabis enjoy wearing niqab and do not see themselves as «under their husband's boot.»

Not only is niqab banned, but also the hijab.

While there is obviously a gender component to the niqab (you do nt see men wearing them), I'm not aware of any decisions where the court has restricted a woman's freedom in the interests of her own gender equality.

Justice Abella also dissented, but held that unless the appearance of the witness» face was directly relevant to the case (such as where identity is in issue), she should not be required to remove her niqab.

Justices LeBel and Rothstein dissented, finding that niqabs should not be worn at any stage of criminal trial proceedings.

In France, this notion has evolved into a law banning the wearing of religious dress or symbols in public institutions, such as government offices and public schools.42 Political parties in Quebec argue that the proposed Bill 94 did not go far enough towards the French position; they say the government should impose a complete ban on the wearing of the niqab, hijab and burqa in Quebec.43