Surgery for woman mutilated by Taliban
Saturday, 7 August 2010
A horrifically mutilated Afghan woman who appeared on a controversial Time magazine cover is to undergo surgery in the United States to rebuild her face, officials said on Friday: the 18-year-old youngster - identified in media reports only by her first name Aisha - will meet with surgeons to discuss how to replace her nose, which was sliced off by the Taliban after she fled her abusive in-laws.
READ MORE: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7724562/surgery-for-woman-mutilated-by-taliban/
TAGS: Dress in the public sphere, Australia
Ban the burqa: Muslim leader
Friday, 6 August 2010
A leading Muslim in Australia has risked a backlash from his community by calling on the winner of the Federal election to ban the wearing of burqas in public: Ameer Ali, an economics lecturer at Murdoch University and vice-president of the Regional Islamic Council of South-East Asia and the Pacific, describes the burqa and similar robe the niqab as "the lingering relics of a patriarchal, misogynistic and tribal culture" and argues there is no religious obligation in the Koran for it to be worn.
READ MORE: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/7717510/ban-the-burqa-muslim-leader/
TAGS: Dress in the public sphere, Australia
In Syria, Ban On Veil Raises Few Eyebrows
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
As a loud and controversial debate continues over wearing the Muslim face veil in Europe, Syria quietly imposed curbs on the niqab, the veil that exposes only the eyes: the secular-minded Syrian government has rejected extreme religious dress in the classroom, the first Arab government to weigh in so heavily on the face veil.
READ MORE: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128671593
TAGS: Dress in the public sphere, Syria
Muslim bus drivers refuse to let guide dogs on board
Monday, 19 July 2010
Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their 'unclean' guide dogs: one pensioner, a cancer sufferer, told how had twice been confronted by drivers and asked to get off the bus because of his guide dog, and had also faced hostility at a hospital and in a supermarket over the animal.
READ MORE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295749/Muslim-bus-drivers-refuse-let-guide-dogs-board.html#ixzz0wnxohFZT
TAGS: Dress in the public sphere, United Kingdom
US disagreement with France over veil ban
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
US officials have reiterated Washington's disagreement with a measure approved by the lower house of France's National Assembly banning the use of face-covering Islamic veils in public: "We do not think that you should legislate what people can wear or not wear associated with their religious beliefs," said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley.
READ MORE: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iDRNL2AG6atzmhKkf3hxWjCFxtYA
TAGS: Dress in the public sphere, United States
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