The origin of the debate could not be more intimate: what a woman chooses to wear before she leaves home. But the increasing popularity of the full Muslim face veil has set off an emotional dispute in the Arab world over whether the covering is required by Islam for modesty or a dangerous sign of political extremism.
أهاج مفتي أستراليا الدنيا، أقامها وأقعدها، شبه النساء باللحم المكشوف، إذا لم يتنقبن أو يتحجبن. خطب في بلاد تقدر الحرية الفردية، تقدسها، تحترم الرجال والنساء بنفس القدر، فيها عاش وامتلأ ونطق بما لو قال عُشره في بلاد المسلمين لاختفى من علي وجه البسيطة.
Four Muslims were arrested outside the Old Bailey yesterday during angry protests against the trial of a man allegedly involved in protests against Danish cartoons.
The UCGB condemns the arrest and imprisonment of Sheikh Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad, aged 57 at the hands of the Egyptian government. Sheikh Akkad is currently imprisoned in Wadi el-Natroun Prison, Egypt for conversion from Islam to Christianity