Social media in Hindu-majority India is awash with misinformation targeting Muslims, with recent posts mocking cricket ...

The Election Commission defends its directive to verify the identity of burqa-clad women at Bihar polling stations, citing a ...

BRITAIN must “stand up for our values” and ban the burqa, the Shadow Justice Secretary demanded today. Robert Jenrick broke ...

A fake image is being circulated on social media platforms with a false claim that it shows Bangladeshi women cricketers ...

Portugal’s burqa ban bill triggers legal debate over religious freedom, women’s rights, and EU human rights law.

France’s “burqa wars” have reached a crucial stage after French Prime Minister François Fillon last week asked the Council of State to help draft a law banning the Islamic veil, or burqa. The prime ...

Haridwar: A case of moral policing has come to light from Uttarakhand's Haridwar. A burqa-clad woman was surrounded and ...

The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

Early in June, Iran denounced European “intolerance” vis-à-vis the burqa. But is this true? Many Muslims have come to the West in search of freedom and modernity; others have not. Controversy is ...

BRUSSELS – BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium's lower house of parliament on Thursday banned burqa-type Islamic dress in public, but the measure faces a challenge in the Senate which will delay early enactment ...

In her first solo exhibition, Junghwa Hong takes up the burqa, the flowing garment worn by some Muslim women to cover face and body. Her sensitive paintings at CB1 Gallery — the gallery’s last before ...

One lawmaker called the burqa a "shock" to French culture. April 10, 2011— -- A controversial burqa ban passed by the French parliament last year will go into effect Monday, making the ...