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A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.
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When she spoke to us Topal had only been able legally to wear her headscarf to teach her classes for the last two weeks.
I used to compare my headscarf to a miniskirt, the two being essentially two sides to the same coin of a woman's body.
I would always ask to borrow her headscarf to play dress-up," she says.
These allegations came in the same week that Le Pen was criticized for her refusal to wear a headscarf to meet a senior Islamic cleric in Lebanon, as well as her proposal for closer ties to Syrian President Bashar Assad.
"Some jobs you cannot get if you are not willing to take off the hijab," she said, pointing to her headscarf.
The perception in the West of the hijab as a mysoginist tool used to subvert Muslim women is as over-simplistic, it seems to me, as the Islamicist reduction of their entire religion to a headscarf.
The incidents, detailed in a report released this week, range from religious slurs and refusals by schools and employers to allow women to wear the hejab headscarf, to people vandalising mosques and physical attacks on Muslims.
In Britain, the hijab usually refers to the headscarf, which covers the hair and often falls down around the shoulders.
Many women, who felt liberated in France from conservative Islamic dress codes, were disappointed by the CFCM's opposition to the headscarf ban.
For this she has got into trouble with traditionalists.On the other hand, this 44-year-old mother of three is no fan of Turkey's secularist laws, especially when it comes to that headscarf.
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