Sentences with phrase «womans face veil»

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Personally the only feeling aroused in me is pity for the women who are forced to wear full face veils.

Police declined to specify whether the woman was wearing a burqa, a full - body covering that includes a mesh over the face, or a niqab, a full - face veil with an opening for the eyes.

For security purposes, women who wear the veil should be ready to remove their face covering in places where security and identity checks are necessary, such as airports.

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.

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.

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

Here is a Muslim woman who makes some sense, arguing for items of modesty such as burkini but against face veiling.

The recent debate over Muslim women wearing full face veils could see a return of riots as seen in Barnsley and Oldham in 2001, Britain's race watchdog chief has warned.

In the Court's opinion, in view of its impact on the rights of women who wished to wear the full - face veil for religious reasons, a blanket ban on the wearing in public places of clothing designed to conceal one's face could be regarded as proportionate only in a context where there was a general threat to public safety.

He has argued face veils for Muslim women should be banned in Britain over «security issues» since his election as Ukip leader last year.

«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.»

Also, discuss how Nina grieves: «With her free hand, she touches her face to make sure» (p. 4); «Again she thinks about those dark - skinned, Mediterranean women, women in veils, women with long messy hair, and she wishes she could beat her breast and wail» (p. 6).

Judges should decide, on a case - by - case basis, whether women can wear the niqab, a full - face veil, while testifying in court, but a blanket rule on the issue would be «untenable,» Canada's top court ruled this morning.

The case concerns a French Muslim woman's complaint that French law prohibits her from wearing a full - face veil in public.

Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)-- the applicant complains that the statutory prohibition on wearing a garment designed to conceal one's face in public places gives rise to discrimination based on gender, religion and ethnic origin, to the detriment of women who, like herself, choose to wear a full - face veil

To deny niqabis service if they do not show their faces is to push these women out of Canada — many will choose to stay home rather than take off the veil.

Most Muslim women in Canada choose to wear the face veil voluntarily, either out of a belief that it is required, or recommended practice.

For example: the right of a small, rural community who believe that the Second Commandment prohibits their photograph from being willingly taken to be exempted from the photograph requirement for driver's licenses was limited to preserve the province's facial recognition data bank aimed at minimizing identity theft; and the right of a Muslim woman to wear a face veil for religious reasons while testifying in court was limited to protect an accused's right to a fair trial.