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People such as Tarek Fatah [91] [92] [93] and Ensaf Haidar [94] have called on the burka to be banned. In 2017 the mayor of Quebec City, Régis Labeaume, said he supports legislation banning the wearing of the niqab or burqa in public spaces. [95] [96] A 2017 Canadian poll found that 54% supported banning the burka. [97]
The Heart of Texas Facebook page, whose link to Russia was first reported by Business Insider, organized a rally at noon on May 21 at the Islamic Da'wesh Center in Houston, Texas, to "Stop ...
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In August 2017, Senator Pauline Hanson arrived at the Senate wearing a burqa in protest, calling for the garment to be banned. Following the incident, ReachTEL polled 2,832 Australians and found that 56.3% supported banning the wearing of the burqa in public places.
Two Texas teenagers are separately suing their schools for their right to sit through the Pledge of Allegiance in protest. Texas high school students sue to protest pledge of allegiance Skip to ...
The Girls of Enghelab protests (Persian: دختران انقلاب) are protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran, part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement. The protests were inspired by Vida Movahed, an Iranian woman known as the Girl of Enghelab Street (Persian: دختر خیابان انقلاب), who stood in the crowd on a utility box on Enghelab Street (Revolution Street) in ...
The two groups —Palestine Solidarity Committee UNT and UNT Young Democratic Socialists of America — posted on their social media a call for students and faculty to walk out at 1:30 p.m. at ...
Protesters holding signs outside John F. Kennedy International Airport's Terminal 4. In late January and early February 2017, during protests against Executive Order 13769, commonly referred to as the “Muslim ban,” thousands of people gathered at various airports in the United States and around the world to protest the attempt by the Trump administration to prevent the prohibition of ...