Wajip wanita muslimah memakai niqab اatau purdah adalah pendapat sebahagian para ulama. Sementara jumhur (majoriti) ulama berpendapat muka wanita tidak termasuk di dalam auratnya. Wanita yang memakai purdah berpegang dengan pendapat golongan ulama yang mewajibkannya. [Full Article]
Faiza Mabchour from Morocco has been denied French citizenship due to her French husband want her to wear niqab. The reason given was wearing niqab is “incompatible with the essential values of the French community and, notably, the principle of equality of the sexes.”
Faiza Mabchour married to a Frenchman in 2000 and first applied for French citizenship on 2004. Her application was denied 2005 and she appeal to the Council of State with the reason of religious freedom.
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French applaud decision to deny woman citizenship over veil - GlobeandMail.Com (2008-07-16)
PARIS — Politicians, feminists and some Muslim leaders here are applauding a court decision to deny citizenship to a Muslim woman from Morocco whose French husband requires her to completely cover her face and body.
Mother dressed in 'burka' denied French citizenship - TimesOnline (2008-07-17)
A Muslim member of the French Government has attacked the head-to-toe Islamic dress as a prison, applauding a court decision to deny citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wore it.
France denies citizenship to veiled Muslim woman - The Huffington Post (2008-07-16)
On June 27, France's highest administrative body, the Council of State, ruled that the woman, identified only as Faiza X, had "adopted a radical practice of her religion incompatible with the essential values of the French community, notably with the principle of equality of the sexes, and therefore she does not fulfill the conditions of assimilation" listed in the country's Civil Code as a requirement for gaining French citizenship.
A Muslim woman too orthodox for France - International Herald Tribune (2008-07-18)
"I would never have imagined that they would turn me down because of what I choose to wear," Silmi said, her hazel eyes looking out of the narrow slit in her niqab, an Islamic facial veil that is among three flowing layers of turquoise, blue and black that cover her body from head to toe.
Why France can't see past the burqa - csmonitor.com (2008-07-21)
Moroccan-born Faiza Mabchour speaks French fluently, has three children born in France, and a French husband. Yet France's top administrative court last month denied her bid for citizenship. Yet no French law regulates what clothes people can wear in their homes or general public. (France bans head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols in public schools.) So Mabchour's burqa is lawful. That France should deny her citizenship on the sole basis of her behavior within the sphere of her own family is inconsistent with normal French tolerance of the private lives of its citizens.
Human Rights Watch organization has released a 54-pages report regarding male guardianship of women and sex segregation stop women from enjoying their basic human rights.
Saudi Arabia: Male Guardianship Policies Harm Women
So in the view of the kingdom's conservative society, the young rape victim broke the first of a string of cardinal rules and sinned by being in the physical presence of a male who is not a directly-related relative.
In Saudi Arabia, a male guardian, who could be the woman's grandfather, father, uncle, husband, son or brother, literally controls her life.
Women must be covered from head to toe, hiding their shapes thanks to a loose-fitting black "abaya" gown, and most of them wear as well a "hijab" veil over the heads and a "niqab" mask concealing the faces, except for the eyes.
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