Discussions about the headscarf achieve the opposite.

A Muslim girl who wears a headscarf in a public school is simply wearing a headscarf, not provocatively challenging a hegemonic social order.

Different women wear the headscarf for different reasons.

It is not uncommon for one sister to wear a headscarf while another does not, or a mother to wear a headscarf while her daughters do not.

Layla converted to Islam and started wearing the Muslim headscarf.

Not all women wear a headscarf because of religious conservatism.

But in Turkey the headscarf is not seen as a trivial symbol.

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come. If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come.

Erkan's field diary discusses Turkey's lifting of the headscarf (Hijab) ban in his country.

An adult woman who chose to wear a headscarf might be excluded from employment in some jobs and a minor girl who was required to wear a headscarf by her family could be excluded from school.

Had Gul been chosen as president, Turkey would have had its first headscarf wearing First Lady.

One of the MP members of the party was Merve Kavakçı who wore an Islamic headscarf.

I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar.

If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

Indeed, many Muslim women I spoke with did not feel at all subjugated by the chador or the headscarf.

The headscarf that Gül s wife wears for religious reasons was seen as an assault on Turkey s sacrosanct principle of secularism.

When I wear my headscarf or chador , people relate to me as an individual, not an object I feel respected.

Young and old alike don the headscarf, and in big cities, seeing it is as common as not seeing it.

I could not bear the heat and removed my headscarf subconsciously. Well, and taking photos is an inseparable part of traveling.

A ghoonghat (also called a laaj, chunni or odhni) is one such veil or headscarf that they cover their faces with.

Hijab is often rendered in translation as headscarf and may be nothing more than a scarf covering the hair and neck.

A bill banning any kind of negative discrimination against young women (including the headscarf) would have been enough to accomplish this goal.

Unlike the majority of Muslim women in Egypt, Shahinaz has never worn a headscarf or veil, and has no plans to do so in the future.

The hijab, the headscarf that some Muslim women wear, is already banned in French public schools, where the ostentatious display of any religious symbolism is forbidden.

Banning the headscarf, of course, raises a less serious issue, but the root concern is similar the defense of the moral and personal integrity of schoolgirls.

Lastly, the suggestion that women wearing headscarves did not have access to health care was completely unfounded the headscarf issue had arisen only at some universities.

As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf, Each is different.

Intlxpatr, an expatriate living in Kuwait, reports that an Islamic MP has requested Parliament to ban female ministers not wearing the Islamic headscarf, the Hijab, from entering Parliament.

That is why the current French debate on the headscarf is so important, for it concerns the rights of Muslim women in European societies and the protection of diversity.

As I was turning the pages, I started to think...pictures of women without the Hijab (Islamic headscarf) and some were in indecent attires, which are not acceptable in Islam.

This headscarf and these clothes, she says, give me the freedom to do what I need to do to speak to those whose support and assistance are critical for this work.

Every society believes that the dress code it imposes in one way or another implements the the order of Allah in the Quranic verse on the Hijab (Islamic headscarf for women).

She explains that as a practicing Muslim, she dressed appropriately, in accordance with the tenets of her religion, and in her second year of studies started to wear a headscarf ( hijab ).

The next day, the Deputy Dean on Ideological and Educational matters called her to his office during a lecture and showed her the new regulations again and asked her to take off her headscarf.

Last summer s re election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s AKP, followed by the election of Abdullah Gul as the first president whose wife wears a headscarf, seemed to confirm the fears of anti Islamic Europeans.

The Gezi Park demonstrators who in June protested peacefully against the use of excessive police force by simply standing still also protested peacefully, years ago, against the ban on the headscarf then in effect in Turkey s universities.

She would also welcome information on the percentage of women's income in relation to social security and on any study conducted, especially in rural areas, on the real impact of the headscarf ban on female school attendance.

But in Turkey the headscarf is not seen as a trivial symbol. Eighty years after the republic s founding the trouble with headscarved women is that they do not fit into the picture of the ideal modern Turkish woman.

A bill banning any kind of negative discrimination against young women (including the headscarf) would have been enough to accomplish this goal. Insisting on the religious side of the ban radically changed the very meaning of the law.

While in the West, hijab is often used to simply refer to the headscarf (veil), a more correct definition is any Islamically mandated dress for either gender, which for women includes, but is not limited to, covering the hair.

The author claims that she is a victim of violations of her rights under articles 18 and 19 of the Covenant, as she was excluded from University because she wore a headscarf for religious reasons and refused to remove it.

6.2 The Committee has noted the author's claim that her right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion was violated as she was excluded from University because she refused to remove the headscarf that she wore in accordance with her beliefs.

In this post we hear from Asmaa Al Ghoul, a journalist and blogger who was arrested last year for not wearing a headscarf she is furious that a friend who refuses to wear the hijab has not been allowed to graduate from university. Palestinian university students.