Europe’s traditions of secular tolerance appear to be haunted by the Islamic veil. Every week seems to bring new headlines announcing moves to crack down on the wearing of what critics appear to deem ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- The origin of the debate could not be more intimate: what a woman chooses to wear before she leaves home. But the increasing popularity of the full Muslim face veil has set off an ...

Britain has been in turmoil over veils in recent days, after a school in Yorkshire suspended a Muslim teacher's assistant for wearing "niqab" -- a form of the traditional veil that leaves only a slit ...

The geographical and historical diversity of Islam is substantial. The veil that Muslim women wear is an instrument of cultural and religious identity and has no extreme connotation within Islam.

(epa) PRAGUE, October 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Debate continues to rage in Great Britain over the wearing of the face veil by some Muslim women, with Prime Minister Tony Blair on October 17 calling the ...

(RFE/RL) -- Following six months of hearings surrounded by public debate, a French parliamentary commission has recommended barring Muslim women from wearing full Islamic veils in public institutions.

NANTES, France — A woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil has been fined by French police for not having a clear field of vision. The fine was small, but it garnered big attention today and may ...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish town council has voted to ban the wearing of the face-covering Islamic veil in public, the first authority in the predominantly Catholic country to do so. The Catalan ...