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33 examples of Headscarves in a sentence

In others, headscarves are being banned.
Or to give you another example: What about a piece of persuasive technology that convinces Muslim women to wear their headscarves?
And notice two of them are wearing headscarves, and yes, even they can laugh.
Now Rasheed reflects on his country’s turn toward religious extremism: he describes a pre-invasion Iraq in which women were professionals and fairly emancipated, whereas now women wear headscarves under pressure, “for a peaceful life.”
In the 1990’s, military-backed secularist governments struck back, attempting to purge religious bureaucrats and military leaders: those who did not consume alcohol, or whose family members wore headscarves, were immediately suspected.
Even simple requests, like that of schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political significance and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government.
Indeed, it is virtually impossible nowadays to talk about headscarves as an issue in its own right.
Central Tehran – ebullient with young people and high-heeled women donning testimonial headscarves and mid-thigh jackets over pants – embodies a thirst for openness.
But, before any public debate could occur, the AKP decided to amend only two articles of the constitution, in order to allow female university students to wear headscarves on campus.
Non-aggressive demonstrations of difference - including Islamic headscarves worn by students or teachers in largely Christian countries - should be bearable.
Schoolgirls in white headscarves wherever you look.
Kemalism not only introduced a variant of the Latin alphabet, which totally cut off Turks from any link to their history and culture; it also banned traditional forms of attire (fez, baggy trousers for men, headscarves for women) and forced a European dress code on the entire population.
Straw defended women’s right to wear less intrusive headscarves; yet he also argued that something is seriously wrong when, in conversation with another person, one cannot engage in face-to-face interaction.
These were ordinary women, some of them “babushkas” wearing headscarves.
There are also some young women, but no headscarves, veils, or burqas in sight.
Many wore headscarves and other signs of religious conservatism, while others reveled in the freedom to kiss a friend or smoke a cigarette in public.
Making “integration courses” and language instruction compulsory, prohibiting headscarves in schools, as in France, or restricting the rights of immigrants to marry foreigners, as in Denmark, are just some instances of coercive measures adopted in the name of supposedly universal liberal values.
In Turkey, the government banned headscarves in public schools and universities.
Crackdowns have seen thousands of young women excluded from classes and even from receiving their degrees if they appear in headscarves.
In France, headscarves have been prohibited from public schools since the late 1980's, restrictions maintained despite the European Union’s concerns that Turkey’s curbs on veiling violate human rights.
This tendency extends deeper than headscarves.
The question for everyone is whether that search for identity can be satisfied with headscarves and wide public acceptance of Islamic religious practice, or if positive affirmation of Islam demands a more fundamental renunciation of modernity.
And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks – the People’s Party’s Switzerland.
A majority of French teachers saw the wearing of headscarves as the work of an organized movement that aimed to question the religious neutrality of schools – and even to contest, as the Roman Catholic Church did centuries ago, the very principles of the Enlightenment.
Those soaring minarets, those black headscarves, are threatening because they rub salt in the wounds of those who feel the loss of their own faith.
Perhaps it is right that the use of religious symbols has become the subject of public debate, though I think that wearing headscarves and even veils is as much a part of individual freedom as is the wearing of Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses.
His offices also have an anti-racism service, offer well publicized access to inexpensive French classes, and distribute booklets on topics like forced marriages and headscarves.
Veils of IgnoranceFrance's decision to ban Muslim female students from wearing headscarves in public schools was made in the name of separation of State and Church, an old and querulous question in French history.
The ban on headscarves has become one more denial of the existence of a social minority.
Customs that the Kemalist secular state suppressed, such as women’s use of headscarves in public places, have reappeared, because rural Turks have more influence.