Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The issue of religious dress, specifically female Muslim religious dress, has been the subject of intense controversy within Europe over recent years. In the United Kingdom comments by Jack Straw MP, Leader of the House of Commons and a former Home and Foreign Secretary, that he felt uncomfortable talking to women at his constituency surgery who wore the Muslim veil sparked a storm of intense and, at times, acrimonious debate.1In France the banning of headscarves in State schools has provoked major controversy.2In the Netherlands the Dutch Parliament voted to ban theburkain public places3and in five Belgian towns its wearing has been banned on pain of a fine.4
DOI: 10.1093/iclq/lei169
Author: Tom Lewis
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,550
OpenAlex ID: W2170704060