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Switzerland’s Proposed Federal Burqa Ban


Posted by nicole on 23 Mar 2016 / 0 Comments
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A year ago I wrote an article here on Muslimah Media Watch about Swiss headscarf bans and mentioned while sharing the link on Facebook that “It is 2015 and I am still writing about this.” It is now 2016, and I am STILL writing about Switzerland and populist fringe politicians trying to crap on Muslims […]

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Switzerland Still Trying to Be Like France: Ticino Burqa Ban Edition


Posted by nicole on 08 Dec 2015 / 0 Comments
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So the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino’s burqa ban (voted on since 2013) now involves fines for those who dare venture into Ticinese streets in burqas. I always joke that Switzerland is about twenty years behind its neighbors politically and here we are with Swizerland catching burqa ban fever. Things that get voted in Switzerland take […]

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Jumping on the Niqab Ban(dwagon)


Posted by Krista Riley on 19 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments
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Not to be outdone by Egypt’s Shaykh Tantawi, the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) released a statement two weeks ago that calls for the Canadian government “to introduce legislation to ban the wearing of masks, niqabs and the burka in public.”  Their rationale for this statement seems twofold: one one hand, the MCC is concerned that […]

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