Bibliography – My Writings on Burqas, Niqabs, Jilbabs, Chadors, Hijabs, and other Islamic Coverings

How to respond to Muslim women who cover their head and face? I take up this spiraling topic in the West from time to time – including an article today, calling for the banning of certain extreme headgear. Here's a bibliography, to be updated as needed.

• "Keeping Muslim Girls under Wraps in France." DanielPipes.org, 11 December 2003. Extreme cases concerning children.
• "Death to France?" DanielPipes.org, 3 January 2004. Reactions in the Muslim world to the French ban on the hijab in public schools.
• "Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Promote Radical Islam," DanielPipes.org, 21 May 2004. The Scouts celebrate "girls committing to hijab"?
• "‘A Jilbab in the School's Colors'." DanielPipes.org, 15 June 2004. Follows the case of Shabina Begum to attend high school in Luton, UK, showing just her face and hands.
• "‘A Woman's Right To Choose'." DanielPipes.org, 7 July 2004. Notes the topsy-turvy use of this slogan.
• "Europe's Burqa Wars." DanielPipes.org, 25 August 2005. Surveys controversies concerning extreme head coverings.
• "Burqas and Niqabs in the Classroom?" DanielPipes.org, 24 October 2005. Traces the pedagogic career of burqas and niqabs.
• "Niqab Hospital Gowns." DanielPipes.org, 5 September 2006. About the "Inter-Faith Gowns" introduced at the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire, England.
• "An Unveiling: Separate, but Acceptable?" National Review Online, 25 October 2006. A preview of the argument at "Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab too.".
• "The Niqab and Burqa as Security Threats" DanielPipes.org, 3 November 2006. Documentation of misuses of these vestments by criminals and fugitives, not all of them necessarily male.
• "How the Niqab Will Enter British Schools." DanielPipes.org, 22 January 2007. Rich Islamists, poor British state, and a surprise twist.
• "The West's First Niqab-Covered Public Official?" DanielPipes.org, 23 February 2007. Traces the political career of Ouafaa Abrazi, a Muslim woman of Moroccan origins who lives in The Hague, Netherlands.
• "Ban the Burqa - and the Niqab too." The Jerusalem Post, 1 August 2007. Justifies the policy advice in the title.

(August 1, 2007)

• "‘We Hope You Will Wear Your Hijab to School'." DanielPipes.org, 20 November 2007. Takes issue with the title quote.

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