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| Egypt to ban niqab-wearing women from voting |
| 2015-10-09 |
| [AA.TR] Women wearing niqab (full Islamic face-veil) will not be allowed to vote in this month's parliamentary election, the electoral commission has said. Speaking at a presser in Cairo on Thursday, commission front man Omar Marwan said that niqab-wearing voters must remove their outfit or else they will be prevented from voting. The niqab, which covers a woman's entire body from head to toe, is worn by women of ultraconservative Muslim backgrounds. In Egypt, however, it is only worn by a small minority of women. Last week, Cairo University, one of Egypt's oldest institutes of higher learning, barred lecturers from wearing the niqab. Egypt's parliamentary election is scheduled to be held in two phases starting Oct. 18-19. A second round of the vote will be held on Nov. 22-23. The upcoming parliamentary vote will be the final step of a political "roadmap" imposed by the army in mid-2013 following the ouster of democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi in a military coup. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 probably to stop sucicide bombers to be fair. |
| Posted by: paul 2015-10-09 13:39 |
| #3 No. Donks use names from the local graveyards. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-09 13:38 |
| #2 Don't the Democrats use the niqab to vote multiple time? Except in the big cities, of course. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-10-09 12:52 |
| #1 But it's OK in the US. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-10-09 07:36 |