Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today … we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing the burqa, which covers and fully ...

I bought a burqa in a marketplace while covering the war in Afghanistan. When I pulled the cowling at the top over my head, to see what a women who wore a burqa might see, it emphasized how that dim ...

A young Muslim woman who chooses to wear a burka says it makes her feel like herself – and threats to ban face coverings only makes her “stronger”. Fatimah Al Zahra, 20, was born a Christian and chose ...

Efforts to pass laws banning full veils, burqa or chador, in some European countries — particularly France — have put the issue firmly on the agenda in many other Western countries. Left and feminist ...

Model Lily Cole has been accused of “putting Instagram posturing before universal human rights” after sharing a photograph of herself wearing a burqa in the same week as Kabul fell to the Taliban, ...