This is not the first time regional officials have tried to ban veils or beards. In 2014 the north-western city of Karamy banned people wearing head scarves, veils and long beards from boarding buses.

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Many brides opt to wear an elegant veil to complete their wedding day look. The veil has a long history, dating back to ancient Rome and Greece. The reason why brides wear veils has changed.

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Part of the argument is over cultural standards, about what types of veils are acceptable in Islamic and in Western countries. In many western countries, including the United States, Islam is ...

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Increasingly popular veils have become part of Beijing's battle to curb what it sees as religious extremism among its Uighur minority in the western region of Xinjiang.

2005-03-19 04:00:00 PDT Tehran-- At the Eskan shopping center in northern Tehran, the young men wear Fubu hip-hop clothes and Oakley shades. The young women, wearing scarves that barely adhere to ...

Women protest in Copenhagen on Aug. 1, the day a ban on face-covering veils took effect in Denmark. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/AFP/Getty Images) A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for ...

DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Western adversaries on Wednesday of being behind a movement among Iranian women activists to challenge the ...

A city in heavily Muslim far western China has begun a campaign to discourage veils and growing long beards in a bid to "dilute religious consciousness," media reports said Thursday.