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Muslim Women and Federal Court Ruling

federal court ruling: Muslim groups say comments by the prime minister and citizenship minister have belittled their community, according to The Chronicle Herald. The government is appealing a federal court ruling that said women do not have to remove the niqab, a veil worn by some Muslim women that conceals most of the face, while taking the oath of citizenship and In both the House of Commons and an email to supporters, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has been touting the government fight to ban niqabs from citizenship ceremonies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.