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Little girls in the militancy-hit Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan hate a diktat issued by pro-Taliban rebels to attend school in burqas. Burqas are the only option some girls' schools in northwestern Pakistan have against being shut down or worse, being bombed. "I want to study, but not in a burqa," said Shah Rukh, a 12-year-old girl enrolled at a primary school at Saidu Sharif in Swat. Shah Rukh is just one of many girls who have learnt to speak out against the burqa diktat in the picturesque Valley. "My 11-year-old daughter cries every morning when she has to wear...

A bus driver in Malmö has been suspended after he allegedly tried to stop a woman from boarding because she was wearing a burqa. The incident happened on Tuesday morning when Leonora Osmani boarded the number 35 bus on her usual route between the Rosengård housing estate and the city's central station. According to Osmani, the driver stopped her from boarding, saying that her burqa made her hard to identify. A burqa covers a woman from head to toe, with a small mesh screen to see through. "I have never before needed to identify myself on a public bus. Wearing...

And now for the latest edition of "Reading Women's Mags So You Don't Have To--See What Your Wives/Daughters/Girlfriends Are Reading":Check out the New Islamofascist face masks. All the rage in Dubai. SEXY. Will Come in Handy for Muslim Women's Pro Hockey Team. Marie Claire has done it again. The magazine which equates our female soldiers with female Islamic terrorists; the magazine which claims that Islamofascist TV broadcasts are liberalizing the Arab world (Ha!); the magazine which hates Christianity and loves women's lib--that magazine suddenly has selectively, yet again, discarded its feminist ethos to show us what it hopes will be...

MP Clarkson tells Muslims to unveil 26 August 2006 By MARTIN KAY National MP Bob Clarkson's mouth has landed him in trouble again after he said "Islam religion-type people" who wore burqas could be crooks hiding guns. The Tauranga MP, who is known to shoot from the lip, said Muslim women should not wear the full-body veils if they wanted to "fit into our country". "Even walking down the street, to a certain extent, how do we know there's not a crook with a gun hiding under a burqa? Who's under that gown?" he said. He was tolerant of all...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Sgt. Nicola Hall knew something was amiss when the Muslim woman in her 60s, clad in a burkha, pushed her hands away as the military policewoman gently patted her down for weapons. When Hall, 22, passed a metal-detecting wand over the woman’s body, it had gone crazy. During the pat down, she pulled out an AK-47 rifle automatic rifle strapped to the woman’s leg and 30 rounds of ammunition tucked under her breast. “She started screaming; she lashed out at me,” Hall recalled. “I said, ‘Why did you hide these from me?’ ” The incident happened...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan, Aug 24, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Coalition forces detained four men after several rocket-propelled grenades were fired at a U.S. special operations forces base in eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday. The men were detained Friday night near Asadabad in eastern Kunar province, said Col. Roger King at Bagram air base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. A patrol sent to investigate captured the men and recovered a grenade launcher, King said. In the same area Thursday, coalition forces detained 12 people. King did not release further details. Forces also uncovered two weapons...