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Austria is just the latest European country to move to ban the Islamic veil, as the continent grapples with questions over Muslim integration, amid concerns over an influx of predominantly Muslim migrants and the threat of Islamist terror.

France has banned the Islamic veil in state schools.

Ms. Zeithi said she could go anywhere provided she wore the Islamic veil, or hijab.

Mariam says she wears the niqab, or full-length Islamic veil, by "personal choice" and for "religious conviction".

The new government will ban the face-covering Islamic veil, and forbid police and workers in judicial institutions from wearing the headscarf.

Despite having no formal government, in July 2011 Belgium became the second country in the EU to approve legislation that outlawed face coverings such as the Islamic veil.

A court in Nantes threw out a $30 fine on Monday that had been imposed on a woman who wore an Islamic veil while driving in April.

"Will it be the Islamic veil tomorrow and the Sikh turban the day after?" she said, according to the Belga news agency.

In July the Syrian government issued a ban against wearing the niqab, a face-covering Islamic veil, at both public and private universities.

WHEN police stopped a woman driving with a full face-covering Islamic veil, little did they know what they would uncover.

See articleFrance's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved a bill that would outlaw the wearing in public of the face-covering Islamic veil.