Sydney Morning Herald | Europe grapples with whether to ban Muslim burqas and niqabs Sydney Morning Herald After France banned veils in 2011, a French woman in her early 20s decided to fight for her niqab. Backed by a group of Birmingham lawyers, the Pakistan-born university graduate and devout Sunni took her case to the European court of human rights, asking ... VASEY: What's missing from our strategy against ISIS Did the ISIS Beheadings Change American Attitudes Toward Islam? Australia Burqa Ban Backlash: Countries Where Islamic Veil is Not Allowed in ... |