The fashion industry has always thrived on pushing the envelope -- but the latest accessory gracing the runways and magazine editorials is the increasingly controversial burqa, or a traditional ...

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Does France’s proposed ban on burqas strike a blow against sexual oppression or infringe upon citizens’ freedom of religious expression? The French Council of Ministers, apparently uncomfortable with ...

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 ...

A call to ban the burqa has permeated Australian political discussions since police raided the homes of suspected Islamist extremists in Sydney and Brisbane on September 18. Liberal Senator Cory ...

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 ...

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 ...

Model Lily Cole has been accused of “putting Instagram posturing before universal human rights” after sharing a photograph of herself wearing a burqa in the same week as Kabul fell to the Taliban, ...

Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer, a Republican, has given up his efforts to get his state to adopt a bill that, according to the Washington Post, would have forbidden wearing masks or other face ...

Most, if not all, super heroes wear cloaks and masks to hide their identity. But how about a burqa? A new cartoon series in Pakistan is turning stereotypes on their head. It’s centered around a woman ...