There are currently 16 states that have banned the burqa, including Tunisia, Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Netherlands, China, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.
France is also the first European country to introduce a ban on full face coverings such as the niqab and burqa in public places. Meanwhile in Germany, the issue of a ban on headscarves mostly concerns aspiring teachers at state schools and trainee judges.
Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Netherlands, China, Sri Lanka, and Switzerland are among the countries that have banned face veils.
The First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution bar federal and state governments from making laws or rules that specifically prohibit women from practicing hijab.
The Karnataka High Court upheld the ban on hijab by the educational institutes on 15 March 2022. The court ruled that hijab is not an essential religious practice under Islam and, hence, is not protected by the Article 25 of the Constitution setting out the fundamental right to practice one's religion.
Banning of headscarves. With a constitutional principle of official secularism, the Turkish government has traditionally banned women who wear headscarves from working in the public sector.
India's Supreme Court has failed to deliver a verdict on whether Muslim students can wear the hijab in schools and colleges, with two judges expressing opposing views. One judge upheld a Karnataka high court order from March that said the hijab was not "essential" to Islam.
The court said that wearing the hijab is not part of essential religious practice under Islam. The ruling came at a time when members of India's minority community are increasingly coming under attack as the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted Hindu-first policies.
Iranian law states that "anyone who explicitly violates any religious taboo in public" should be imprisoned for up to two months, or flogged with 74 lashes. In practice, this means women must cover their hair with a headscarf and their arms and legs with loose clothing.
No, women are not required to cover their hair in Dubai. This might be required at certain religious places, but places that have this requirement usually also offer to borrow appropriate clothing to cover up.
There are currently 16 states that have banned the burqa, including Tunisia, Austria, Denmark, France, Belgium, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Netherlands, China, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Switzerland.
The highest overall levels of restrictions are found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran, where both the government and society at large impose numerous limits on religious beliefs and practices.
In USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand the 'Hijaab' is allowed in the classroom just as there is no ban on Saraswati Vandana in schools in India even as a contrived Hijab controversy shows up a weak Govt.
Wearing hijab is perfectly okay. However, talking about religion in public is not okay at all. It's not illegal, but you will quickly become a social pariah.
In Norway, there is a ban on staff wearing the full veil in schools and nurseries. The ban essentially is on the full-face coverings such as the Niqab and Burqa, but not the Hijab. The Muslim girl students in Karnataka are opposing the 'ban' on hijabs or head covers.
As a result of the law, the only exceptions to a woman wearing a face-covering veil in public will be if she is travelling in a private car or worshiping in a religious place. French police say that while there are five million Muslims in France, fewer than 2,000 are thought to fully cover their faces with a veil.
Such acts of civil disobedience have increased in Iran, where the country's "hijab and chastity" law requires women and girls over the age of 9 to wear a headscarf in public, since the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police on September 16.
Tattoo artists are regularly arrested in Iran and sentenced to fines, lashes or even imprisonment. While there is no specific law against tattoos and they are not strictly forbidden in Shia Islam, the authorities strongly reject them as a western phenomenon harmful to Iranian values.
The Court also observed that the prescriptions in suras regarding Hijab are not mandatory. "The Holy Quran does not mandate wearing of hijab or headgear for Muslim women.
Wearing hijab is mandatory in certain Islamic countries, and optional or restricted in other majority Muslim and majority non-Muslim countries. In the Indonesian Aceh province, Muslim women are required to wear the hijab and all women are required to do so regardless of religion in Iran and Afghanistan.
NEW DELHI: The Muslim side on Thursday told the Supreme Court that a girl student can be barred from wearing a miniskirt to an educational institution, but not a hijab, by applying the restrictions of public order, decency and morality to the freedom of expression under Article 19(2) of the Constitution.
Essentially, they argue that banning the hijab and other such religious clothing liberates wearers from oppressive religious practices, thereby enhancing their autonomy.
Indian court says yes. The High Court in India's southern state of Karnataka upheld hijab bans in schools statewide, claiming that the head-covering was not part of “essential religious practice.” Muslim students across India worry the court's decision could set a national precedent.
The wearing of a hijab in public is currently mandatory for women in Iran under strict Islamic law that is enforced by the country's so-called morality police.
The reasons given for prohibition vary. Legal bans on face-covering clothing are often justified on security grounds, as an anti-terrorism measure. However, the public controversy is wider, and may be indicative of polarisation between Muslims and western European societies.