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The Netherlands, historically associated with the principle of religious tolerance perhaps more than any other state in Europe, has announced its intention to ban the burqa in public. The Dutch ...

An Australian senator campaigning for a national burqa ban was suspended Tuesday from parliament for the rest of the year after wearing the garment in the chamber. Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old ...

The Australian parliament has given rise to the ‘burqa box’, the top tier of glassed-in public galleries. AAP/Lukas Coch Having worked at Scotland Yard for 30 years, mainly on counter-terrorism and ...

Hanson has long called for the burqa to be banned in public, saying the central issue is the “right of others to see a face.” Amid unrest from her fellow senators, Hanson dramatically took off the ...

Moroccan authorities have recently banned the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the burqa – an outer garment worn by some Muslim women to cover themselves in public. It completely conceals the face ...