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Behind the veil: China's policies in Xinjiang hurt minority businesses

The Silk Road trading centre of Kashgar has been Muslim for centuries, but despite hordes of people thronging the main bazaar, Gulnur's headscarf shop had barely any customers. As violence increased last year in China's far western region of Xinjiang, home to mostly Muslim Uighurs, authorities banned veils and other Islamic coverings -- wreaking...

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Church Bans Religious Attire

The Russian Orthodox Church has criticized a French law banning public school students from wearing religious attire, including headscarves, a measure that led to the abduction of two French journalists in Iraq. "At the very beginning, when this law was being drafted, we voiced our concern over this ban on expressing one's religious sentiments,"...