Europe

Germany: Muslim fashion for women exhibition stirs controversy

Muslim head coverings have always been a controversial topic, as they embody so many issues, whether women’s rights worldwide or Western prejudice and discrimination against Muslims. Now that the first exhibition dedicated to fashion consciousness of women in Islam is opening at Frankfurt’s Museum Angwandte Kunst, the debate surrounding headscarves has been rekindled in Germany. Titled […]

Home Office needs to be sensitive to ‘real threat’ of persecution for Christian converts, says legal group

Source: CT The Home Office is being urged to improve its religious literacy following outrage over its handling of an Iranian Christian convert’s request for asylum. Writing in The Times, Laurence Wilkinson, of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, said it “beggars belief” that the Home Office used points of theology […]