Burqa in a sentence

I personally have no quarrel with a lady wearing a burqa or even a man wearing a burqa, but there is a question on occasion of public order.

As many as 13 students from the fashion designing course walked the ramp donning ‘Burqa and Hizab’ in the presence of celebrity judges, Bollywood actress Mandakini and TV actress Radhika Gautam.

Days after Prime Minister Modi asked his party leaders to observe restraint and reach-out to Muslims, some students of a college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad were denied entry for wearing Burqa and Hijab.

Illustrative: A screenshot of video from the northern West Bank village of Burqa shows a fire, amid clashes between Palestinians and settlers, May 24, 2023.

In addition, Palestinian residents of the nearby Burqa village petitioned the High Court to demolish the Homesh yeshiva, located on private Palestinian lands.

They didn't normally wear the burqa, but they said they sometimes do now when they go outside and want to remain anonymous and avoid harassment.

A nearly identical incident took place two days earlier, in which the settlers entered the field of a Palestinian farmer from Burqa, tearing down a fence and damaging his crops, Yesh Din said.

Aware of the backlash that would ensue amid charges of hypocrisy, she bizarrely tried to disguise herself in a burqa but was caught out by paps who recognised her driver.

He wrote, “If you want to take part in protests against CAA and NRC (provisions for which are yet to be implemented), you have to wear burqa or hijab.

His daughter Khatija was brutally trolled a while back by the Swedish-Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on social media, for wearing the burqa, but Khatija’s graceful and befitting answer to the author received huge applauds by netizens.

In the afternoon, BJP candidate for Naugaon Sadat seat Sangeeta Chauhan alleged “fake voting” in her constituency and demanded that those wearing the burqa should remove the face cover to enable poll officials ascertain their identities, PTI reported.

One day, he saw a woman in a burqa in downtown Rochester.

Denmark’s parliament last year banned wearing the Islamic burqa and niqab in public and approved a plan to hold foreign criminals on a tiny island.

Despite the dress code being fixed, Nishat’s father Muhammad Ikramul Haq said that the burqa is included in their tradition.

Jewish settlers assaulted a Palestinian elderly shepherd in the Burqa village, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, on Wednesday, injuring him in the head.

The burkini is a female swimsuit that completely covers the woman’s body, except the face, hands and feet – it is a portmanteau of the words ‘burqa’ and ‘bikini’.

At least 100 women who identify as wearing the burqa have written to the Tory party demanding action against Johnson, and women who wear face veils have spoken about their choices following his comments.

France’s burqa ban, a law disallowing Muslim women from wearing certain religious clothing, is still on the books, and the Court of Justice of the European Union recently ruled that many private employers can ban religious symbols from the workplace.

In early 1989, Egypt agreed to compensate the victims of the Ras Burqa massacre, also issuing a formal statement of apology to the family of each victim.

The government of Denmark is set to ban burka (also called burqa), the traditional Muslin veil, and niqab (Islamic headwear worn by women) in the country.