Headscarf Controversy, The Church history How can you understand something

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Headscarf Controversy, The Church history How can you understand somethingHilal Elver offers an in depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights. After evaluating political actions and court decisions