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a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan
the Taliban forced all women to wear the burqa
How To Use burqa In A Sentence
- A flood of widows in cornflower blue burqas, demanding the right to work, sweep the viewer convincingly right into the middle of the drama, where a western cameraman captures the commotion.
- Women are required to wear full body coverings, such as chadors and burqas.
- They told voters that "the minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls. Ahmed Rehab: Swiss Radicalization: A Sign of Things to Come?
- Regensburg = his rather controversial speech to his alma mater talking about Islam (last year?) 'What a burqa' and 'bash the bishop' were 2 consecutive days 'frontpage headlines about the weirdie-beardie Arch-Bish ... How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
- Therefore, the call to remove the burqa cannot be devoid of such a context and for Eltahawy to think that divorcing her criticism from such a context as viable is politically naïve. Global Voices in English » Hijablogging: On Burqas and Bans
- The French "burqa" is what we call a niqab, the nunlike skullcap and tight scarf over chin and neck, leaving a half-inch slit for the eyes. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- The minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls," the sponsors said. Wael Nawara: After The Swiss Ban On Building Minarets, 3D Islam: A Religion Or A Political Ideology?
- Quebec has banned state employees from wearing burqas, niqabs, yarmulkes or large crucifixes in the workplace. Times, Sunday Times
- Bangladesh is now a secular state as the Appellate Division (of the Supreme Court) verdict scrapped the Fifth Amendment to the constitution ... in this secular state, everybody has religious freedom, and therefore no man, woman or child can be forced to wear religious attires like burqa. Anushay Hossain: Nobody's 'Basket Case': Bangladesh Leads the Muslim World by Example
- Guidelines in the pamphlet forbid police from asking women to remove their burqa or full-face veil in the street.