Niqab in Germany

A woman wears niqab at Baselerplatz tram stop in Frankfurt, Germany, 26 September 2014. Although Germany has so far steered out of the issue, Hesse, a state run by CDU ruling party, has banned since 2011 Muslim face veils for its workers, because ‘public sector workers must have neutral religious and political views'. A court in Bavaria has banned, on 22 April 2014, a 18-year-old Muslim student from wearing a face veil in class, rejecting her argument that she had a constitutional right to do so (Photo by Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images)