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A setback for the Islamist ruling party of Turkey: Turkish Rulers Backtrack on Head Scarves. ANKARA, Turkey, July 31 — Turkey’s ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities, a campaign that infuriated defenders of the country’s ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Women's Rights, Hijab, Headscarf
A giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris.
LGF, France, Louvre, Islam, Headscarf, Hijab, Misogyny, Dhimmitude
It’s confirmed. That really is Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s wife in that photograph I posted yesterday. Here are some more pictures of the First Bag Lady, with a hat tip to LGF reader dgoddard.
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
I don’t know if it’s a real picture, but it’s too funny/sad/pathetic not to post; it’s from hurriyet.com.tr, and it purports to show Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his first lady. (Hat tip: Drained Brain.) Also see: Iran’s First Lady - Confirmed
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
Remember this horrifying story the next time an Islamic advocacy group tries to tell you that wearing the hijab is a completely voluntary choice for Muslim women: Murder Charge for Brother Whose Sister Shed Scarf. TORONTO — The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described ...
LGF, Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Headscarf, Honor Killing
Debbie Schlussel has some interesting information about the two Muslim women prevented from sitting behind Barack Obama at a Detroit rally, and their connections to radical Islamic front groups. (Are you surprised?)
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Headscarf, Hijab, MSA, Muslim Student Association
They were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing in visible seats behind Barack Obama, because they were wearing Muslim headscarves. A campaign official apologized to them when it became a news story. But that’s not good enough; they won’t be happy until they’ve made a presidential candidate grovel: Muslim woman ...
Michael Rubin at The Corner has news of an amazing development in Turkey, following the Islamist attack in an Ankara courthouse. (Hat tip: Jim in Virginia.) I spoke at length with Turkish officials last night. What is happening in Ankara is amazing. Crowds booed Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul—the ruling party’s ...
Raging and seething over a Turkish court’s decision to ban the hijab on public employees at work, a Muslim attorney tried to commit mass murder in Ankara today: Lawyer shoots judges in Turkish court. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) ANKARA, Turkey (CNN) — At least five judges were wounded when an ...
Chechnya’s Islamic prime minister Ramzan Kadyrov has been pushing the government in the direction of shari’a, and now they are demanding that women wear headscarves. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) GROZNY, Russia, March 10 (Reuters) - The pro-Moscow Chechen government has started to demand that female state workers wear headscarves, women ...