Quote by Angela Merkel

The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is…

— Jean-Francois Cope

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

— Aamir Khan

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

— Salman Rushdie

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

— Ernst Zundel

Some forms of veil are justified by the idea that you're not tempting men. Well how about men just behaving and keeping their hands…

— Mona Eltahawy

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

— Shirin Ebadi

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

— Milton Jones

I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression.…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

“the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not…

— Fred Halliday

I'm no fan of Sarkozy, but I support a ban on face veils because they erase women from society and are promoted by an…

— Mona Eltahawy

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Being gay is no longer a taboo subject in Germany.

— Mario Gomez