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Even British government ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid have made disparaging remarks about the nikab -- and they hail from across the Scottish border, where men wear skirts. thanks Mouin
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 As'ad 2006
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Even British government ministers Gordon Brown and John Reid have made disparaging remarks about the nikab -- and they hail from across the Scottish border, where men wear skirts. thanks Mouin
Sunday, October 22, 2006 As'ad 2006
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She'd gone away to Morocco to live for about three years and when she'd come back, she was wearing not only the hijab, the veil, she was wearing a nikab, she was completely covered and she was presenting herself, essentially, as a fundamentalist.
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BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sultaana Freeman, a Muslim, had claimed in court she couldn't take off her veil, or nikab (ph), for a driver's license photograph because it would violate her religious beliefs.
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This would prohibit the full-body burka or face-covering nikab being worn in streets, public gardens, sports grounds and buildings "meant for public use or to provide services" to the public.
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While French President Nicolas Sarkozy is encountering legal obstacles to outlawing the face-covering nikab, Belgium seems likely to beat France to bring in the first national ban in Europe.
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He chose a nikab as a statement against Islam as a suffocating ideology, but also to show that he has been living in "a prison" for almost a year although he has not been physically locked up.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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Some young Muslim feminists consider the hijab and the nikab political symbols, too, a way of rejecting Western excesses such as binge drinking, casual sex and drug use.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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#tahrir should have a best beard and nikab competition today.
NYT > Home Page By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS 2011
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PROUD OF IT] nikab RT @expatina: Let's stop mincing words, MSM.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar 2010
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