{"id":11584,"date":"2018-07-26T15:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:10:40","slug":"these-are-all-the-countries-that-have-banned-the-niqab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/news\/these-are-all-the-countries-that-have-banned-the-niqab\/","title":{"rendered":"These are all the countries that have banned the Niqab"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/amp-jwplayer>\n

Not the first, and others are on the way.<\/span><\/h1>\nDenmark is the latest European country to take part in a string of discriminatory bans on the religious headwear favoured by some Muslim women, known as the Niqab.<\/span>\n\nWhilst bans have been in place in the continent for the past decade, the trend has recently picked up, with new bans being implemented after a controversial ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that banning the veil did not breach human rights.<\/span>\n\nThis has led to a wave of full and partial bans across the continent, with Denmark being the latest.<\/span>\n\nMuslim organisations and human rights groups, such as the Danish group \u2018Kvinder | Dialog\u2019, have protested the bans, accusing legislators of targeting Muslim women. Legislators have claimed their policies are non-discriminatory, and apply to people of all religious denominations, despite the bans mainly affecting Muslim women who wear the niqab.<\/span>\n\nAmnesty International described the latest ban as a \u201cdiscriminatory violation of women\u2019s rights.\u201d <\/span>\n
\u201cIf the intention of this law was to protect women\u2019s rights it fails abjectly,\u201d said Amnesty International\u2019s Europe director Gauri van Gulik. \u201cInstead, the law criminalizes women for their choice of clothing and in so doing flies in the face of those freedoms Denmark purports to uphold.\u201d<\/span><\/blockquote>\nMay Allah protect our brothers and sisters in Europe!<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not the first, and others are on the way. Denmark is the latest European country to take part in a string of discriminatory bans on the religious headwear favoured by some Muslim women, known as the Niqab. Whilst bans have been in place in the continent for the past decade, the trend has recently picked […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow4-bBDA:productID":"","content-type":"","newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/f1402f44-8994-4c23-83de-48d0d766f08f"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[77],"series":[],"speaker":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-latest","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-1.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Mums-on-the-RunV3.jpg?fit=2160%2C2160&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/feed\/podcast\/mums-on-the-run","embedCode":"

These are all the countries that have banned the Niqab<\/a><\/blockquote>