A Fox 6 report says a Muslim woman in Indiana was asked to leave a Family Dollar store for wearing full Islamic garb, and the woman recorded the incident on video. Thirty-two-year-old Sarah Safi says she had just entered a Gary, IN Family Dollar
Per a Fox 2 report, a Muslim woman says she was fired from her new job because she refused to remove her hijab. Najaf Khan entered her third day on the job Monday wearing her hijab for the first time
Up to 150 people have been detained in Iran after the morality police raided what has been described as a mixed-gender party near Tehran.
The press regulator has received more than 800 complaints after The Sun published an article questioning why a hijab-wearing Muslim was chosen to anchor Channel 4’s coverage of the Islamist terrorist attack in Nice last week.
The European Court of Justice has made a ruling declaring it illegal for a business to fire a woman because she wore a hijab to work, saying customers and employers should get used to it. The case was brought to
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) – The EU’s top court faced a dilemma Wednesday after a top legal officer said it was discriminatory for a firm to tell an employee to remove a Muslim headscarf, contradicting an earlier opinion in a separate case.
Video released Tuesday evening captures the moment a Palestinian woman attempted to stab Israeli soldiers at a bus stop near the West Bank settlement of Ariel earlier in the day.
Police Scotland have said they will do “anything” to be more “diverse” and will be introducing a special hijab to encourage more female Muslims to join the force. The Scottish Police authority released a detailed report on how they are
Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men in a bid to bypass state ‘morality’ police who rigorously enforce penalties for not wearing a hijab.
Iran has arrested eight people in a crackdown against women who “promote immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity,” by appearing on Instagram without wearing the mandatory hijab head covering.
The Huffington Post published an article Wednesday entitled, “The Beautiful Reasons Why These Women Love Wearing A Hijab.” In publishing propaganda like this, the Huffington Post would be in danger of losing its credibility — that is, if it had any.
The decision of the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, to reject the application of a Muslim woman, citing her religious dress code, has sparked a heated debate in the Arab world.
A high school in Rancho Cucamonga has apologized after mistakenly naming a hijab-wearing 11th grade devout Muslim student “Isis Phillips” in its yearbook.
Paris (AFP) – Students at an elite Paris university sparked fierce debate Wednesday by inviting classmates to wear the Muslim veil for a day in a bid to “demystify” a practice that is highly divisive in France. Students at Sciences
Qatar’s government-owned Islamweb.net is showing a video in which an Islamic mother teaches her daughter that Muslim girls who do not wear the hijab or who wear clothing that shows their arms, legs, or hair are “closer to Satan.”
Danish sportswear company Hummel has designed a soccer jersey with a hijab for the Afghan women’s team so they can play the game while observing their faith.
A consultant has been suspended after revealing how he asked a Muslim surgeon to remove her headscarf in the operating theatre. Dr Vladislav Rogozov said in a blog that he confronted the woman before surgery, telling her it was against
A British National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust has developed official hijabs which they call “multi-faith dignity gowns” to protect the “modesty” of patients, after local Muslims apparently complained about standard hospital gowns. The hijabs, which can also function as niqab due
A new Muslim, hijab-wearing Barbie doll has taken Instagram by storm.
President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore Wednesday but, according to activists, women who attended the mosque regularly pray in a separate balcony space.
Some non-Muslim women in the United States and other countries voluntarily donned the “hijab” on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women.
Local Muslim and civil rights leaders gathered in San Diego on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women wearing headscarves while taking familiar jabs at “political candidates” for “anti-Muslim prejudice.”
A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.
In an op-ed at the Washington Post, Muslims Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa are denouncing the left’s attempts to show “solidarity” with Muslims by inviting schoolgirls and women to don the hijab. Instead, they say Americans are getting “duped” by the Muslim sexist agenda and would rather see Americans stand against the ideology of Islamism that represses women and demands Muslim women cover themselves.
The religious radicals who rule Iran have stepped up their enforcement of male-female separation on the ski slopes, dispatching units to enforce segregation laws high up in the mountains.
A political science professor at Wheaton College is on administrative leave after wearing a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims.
The Muslim Students Association (MSA) of Vernon Hills High School–a public school in Illinois–hosted an event titled “Walk a Mile in Her Hijab,” which was designed to provide non-Muslim students with the opportunity to wear the hijab and understand more about the Muslim faith.
Muslim women in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have launched a campaign to encourage non-Muslims to become familiar with the hijab and why they wear it.
Readers of Sunday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times were presented with a front-page story depicting a sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s Syrian refugee resettlement project.
University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.
A Swedish shopping centre has been forced to apologise after insisting a wall mural they had commissioned did not feature a woman wearing a hijab. The secular organisation said they did not want to display religious symbols. The shopping centre
A struggling girl was denied extra classes at her school in Birmingham, England because she did not wear a hijab, a senior government worker has alleged. Anthony Dunne made the claim while giving evidence against five teachers who worked for
After a video revealed a Zara employee in Paris denying entry to a woman wearing a hijab, the clothing store issued an apology.
The British government is set to award an Islamic education trust that forces students to wear the hijab as part of its school uniform a grant of £millions to teach other schools to achieve the same tests results it currently does.
Celebrating the defeat of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the CBC is framing Canada’s election as a battle of good versus evil, with the heroic Justin Trudeau and his Liberals overcoming the “dark forces” of the Canadian right.
Numerous high schools in Gaza have begun to expel female students because they did not wear headscarves on the first day of school. There is no law that states female students must wear a headscarf, but that did not stop school administrators from punishing those who do not wear one.
Iran’s chief of police announced Wednesday that the Islamic Republic will crack down on women who go rogue and do things such as driving without a proper head covering (hijab).
Pamela Geller discusses her take on Charee Stanley, a Muslim flight attendant suing ExpressJet Airlines.
What began as a silent online protest has sprawled into a raging movement with Iranian women removing their hijabs and posting pictures of their pretty, uncovered hair to flow freely through the wind, a crime that is forbidden and punishable by arrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has a history of courting Muslim voters through flirtations with Islamic fundamentalism. This has included addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab.
