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Les Couture Police

With all the furore about a French parliamentary committee recommending a ban on Muslim women wearing Islamic face veils in public, I thought it was a good time to bring up France’s long-standing history of banning items of clothing… Historically religion isn’t the only area to fall victim to the fashion police in France, sartorial [...]

Posted Under: Gender Politics,Islamophobia,Religion
This post was written by Liz Stephens on January 26, 2010 Comments (1)

France and the Burqa

Guest post by Carl Packman While Sarkozy in France has realised that the burqa ban will be harder to enforce than originally believed – and so, therefore, will be shelved – another group of angry right wing men (and women), this time in Britain, have decided the issue is for them, namely UKIP, and for [...]

Posted Under: Islamophobia,Religion
This post was written by Guest Post on January 20, 2010 Comments (13)