Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today … we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing the burqa, which covers and fully ...

I bought a burqa in a marketplace while covering the war in Afghanistan. When I pulled the cowling at the top over my head, to see what a women who wore a burqa might see, it emphasized how that dim ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.

Everyone’s suddenly calling for a ban on the burqa, said Gilbert Collard. A little-known Communist deputy spoke out last week of his disgust at seeing a burqa-clad woman on the streets of Paris, and ...

Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi-American, was brutally attacked in her home in El Cajon¸ California, on March 21. She was found unconscious by her eldest daughter, with a note placed by her beaten ...

Efforts to pass laws banning full veils, burqa or chador, in some European countries — particularly France — have put the issue firmly on the agenda in many other Western countries. Left and feminist ...