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Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s preference that Muslim women visiting his office remove their veils ignited a heated debate Friday about cultural isolation and tolerance in Britain. Subscribe to ...

A Muslim woman wearing a face-veil (niq­ab) and sitting in the surgery of her male member of parliament is a complex and interesting phenomenon. Some might argue that she represents the best of ...

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Wearing a Muslim veil revealing only her chestnut eyes, Maheesa Razia grabbed two small bundles of coriander and handed them to a vegetable vendor at the Whitechapel Street Market in east London.

Farzana Hassan [president, Muslim Canadian Congress]: "For those who think the veil symbolizes the oppression of Muslim women – think again. In an American court in August of 2006, the veil instead ...