There have been demonstrations by women students in Cairo after a leading cleric backed moves to ban the wearing of full women’s veils, known as the niqab, in classrooms or dormitories. Christian Fraser has been hearing both sides of the argument.
It is not often I am summoned to the door of the Supreme Council of [...]
1. The niqab is a symbol of female subjugation.
None of the niqab-wearing women who I know, wear it because they have been forced to. They see it as an act of devotion to their Creator: the culmination of a spiritual journey. In fact most of them are women who were born and brought up in [...]
Malaysia is working on becoming the center of Islamic fashion in Muslim countries and all over the world under the banner of “Islamizing clothes,” according to media reports.
Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, told the press that she plans on making Malaysia the center of Muslim fashion by hosting fashion shows [...]
My Style
I don’t have a specific style, but I do love colour! My favourites are white, turquoise, fuchsia, yellow and red. When it comes to prints, I love polka dots but sometimes I prefer more exotic patterns.
It’s important for me that my clothes aren’t too tight, and of course that they look lady-like. I [...]
Men’s fashion trends are few and far between; yes, a lot of women’s trends are eventually adapted to the men’s market, but if 2009 men’s hair trends prove anything it is that classics will always rule when it comes to men’s fashion. Unsurprisingly it’s no different when it comes to men’s suits.
Suit Trends
While suiting and [...]
STOCKHOLM, May 26 (Reuters) – A Swedish warship captured seven pirates after they tried to attack a cargo vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, Swedish armed forces said. The Swedish ship fired warning shots using cannon, machine guns and sniper fire to force the pirates to abort the attempted hijacking, the Swedish military [...]
For the 14 crew aboard the Karagöl, a Turkish chemical tanker churning through the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden, it was the moment all seafarers dread: heavily armed Somali pirates were speeding towards the slow-moving cargo vessel, and there was no chance of escape.
The Turkish sailors were swiftly overpowered and the 5,850-ton tanker [...]
‘Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist’
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Thursday, 21 May 2009
TERI PENGILLEY
Mohamed Aden, 25, who was approached by a fake postman
Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants.
The men claim they were [...]