Tag: Burqa Ban

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Berlin: Members of Germany’s lower house of parliament have approved a law that partially bans the full-face Islamic veil or the burqa, the media reported on Friday. The bill will prevent civil servants, judges and soldiers from wearing burqas at work, the BBC reported. After the approval on Thursday, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said […]

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Wednesday called for a ban on the use of burqa by women of a particular community as it threw its weight behind a similar plan being mulled by the Sri Lankan government in the wake of the Easter terror strikes which claimed over 250 lives. “This restriction has been recommended as […]

Ballia (UP): Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swarup Shukla on Wednesday said Muslim women will be “freed” from the practice of wearing ‘burqa’, which he described as an evil custom and compared it to the banned triple talaq. This comes a day after the minister wrote to the Ballia district magistrate, complaining that he is facing […]