No more full face veils and ‘fake Virginity’ devices in Egypt.

One of the world's biggest Muslim nations has begun a crackdown on women wearing full face veils.
Egypt's top cleric, Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, said the niqab dress was a custom which has nothing to do with Islam.
Now the sheikh, who is dean of al-Azhar university, has vowed to ban female students from wearing the garment from all its institutions, including middle and high schools, according to reports.

While the vast majority of Egyptian women wear head scarves, only a few wear the niqab, which is common in nearby Saudi Arabia.
Sheikh Tantawi was said to be angered during a tour of a Cairo school when he noticed a girl wearing the full veil.
'Niqab has nothing to do with Islam. I know about religion better than you and your parents,' he reportedly told the student before making her take it off. A security official confirmed yesterday that police have verbal orders to prohibit girls covered from head to toe from entering al-Azhar's institutions - for security reasons.
Critics of the move, however, say the ban has little chance of being implemented.

A researcher wearing the niqab was barred from using the library at the American University in Cairo in 2001.
She took her case to Egypt's Supreme Court, which ruled a total ban on the niqab would be unconstitutional.

Fake Virginity is too fake for Egypt

And at the same time Egyptian MPs have backed calls to ban the importation of a device which can help a woman to fake virginity. The Artificial Virginity Hymen kit, distributed by a Chinese company, costs about ?20(pound). It is intended to help new brides fool their husbands into believing they are virgins, which is culturally important in conservative Arab countries like Egypt. The device releases liquid that looks like blood, allowing a newlywed woman to feign virginity. It is seen as a cheap and simple alternative to Hyman repair surgery, which is carried out in secret by some clinics. Sheik Said Asker, a member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood who is on the parliamentary religious affairs committee, said the kit would make it easier for Egyptian women to give in to temptation.