1.   It seems that only burkas, the head-to-toe veils required by conservative Muslims, have stopped selling.

2.   Restaurants blared music, men skipped the call to prayer and some cast off their burkas, the head-to-toe veil required by the Taliban.

3.   In the book, el-Ashmawy argues that nothing in the Koran or sayings by the Prophet Mohammed require the veil for women.

4.   More liberal Persian Gulf countries like Bahrain do not require veil, but hijab is common even among professional women.

5.   The Front would ban alcohol, require veils and separate the sexes in public.