France’s burka ban - in pictures

In pictures: A new law in France outlaws the wearing of face coverings like the burka and niqab in public

As France signs off burka ban, meet the Niqabitches

News Fri 8 Oct 2010, AT 19:10

Video: With niqab to be illegal in six months, students seize last chance to pair it with miniskirts for protest video

Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders forces burka ban on Netherlands

News Fri 1 Oct 2010, AT 11:33

Anti-Islamic MP demanded anti-immigration policies as price of propping up minority government

Behind the wire

Imane Boudlal

Disneyland hostess banned from wearing hijab

News Tue 24 Aug 2010, AT 13:48

Forbidden her hijab in the Magic Kingdom, waitress Imane Boudlal has been given a trilby hat instead

Richard Dawkins

Dawkins: my revulsion for the 'bin-liner' burka

News Tue 10 Aug 2010, AT 14:00

Arch-atheist Richard Dawkins accused of Islamophobia for his views on the burka

Baroness Warsi

Baroness Warsi defends right to wear a burka

News Tue 3 Aug 2010, AT 10:07

If a woman has a choice, then she’s not oppressed, says Tory chairman

Burka veil

Clarkson was right about burkas and red G-strings

News Fri 30 Jul 2010, AT 13:21

Antonia Bland: Clarkson was not being insensitive - Muslim women do wear lingerie

Rachid Nekkaz

Rich Muslim vows to pay all French burka fines

News Tue 13 Jul 2010, AT 19:07

Flamboyant Rachid Nekkaz pledges €1m to pay fines of French Muslim women caught wearing the full veil

Burka

Liberal imam risks death by backing ban on burkas

News Wed 27 Jan 2010, AT 09:32

Mob of 80 Muslims attack Hassen Chalghoumi’s mosque in Paris suburb

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