The Citadel considers first-ever uniform exception: allowing a Muslim hijab
Source: The Washington Post By Susan Svrluga The Citadel is considering a request from an admitted student that she be allowed to wear a hijab in keeping with her Muslim […]
Video: Canada’s Governor General calls niqab ban ‘small-minded’
Source: CBC News On Wednesday evening CBC aired a Peter Mansbridge interview with Governor General of Canada Mr David Johnston. Their discussion touched upon Niqab Debate and Mr Johnston showed […]
French PM Manuel Valls wants to ban Muslim Hijab. Has he ever seen Mother Mary’s picture?
French PM calls for ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, has sparked controversy by suggesting the Muslim headscarf […]
Insulting Muslim Fashion and Modest Dressing is as Bad as Forcing the Hijab
Source: Patheos By Saideh Jamshidi To cover or not to cover, that’s the problem, but to whom? When Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé recently advised fellow designers to have […]
Muslim women sue Denver Airport ground services company that forbade head scarves
Source: The Denver Post By Kirk Mitchell A federal jury trial began Monday in which JetStream Ground Services was accused of not allowing female Muslim employees to wear clothing required […]
Debating the Hijab
Source: The Clarion Project By Codi Robertson Westerners tend to regard wearing a hijab as a form of oppression, as French women’s rights minister says, but are things really as […]
Tourists join bareheaded protest against Iranian clothing laws
Source: BBC Wearing the hijab is a legal requirement for women in Iran. But a controversial Facebook campaign is calling on female tourists visiting the country to post pictures […]
France takes dim view of burkini swimwear, unlike Brits
Source: Religion News Service By Tom Heneghan (Tom Heneghan is a correspondent based in Paris) PARIS (RNS) Burkinis aren’t showing up at the beaches on either side of the English […]
Stephanie Kurlow: Young Muslim girl hopes to be world’s first hijab-wearing ballerina
Source: Independent A young Muslim girl is hoping to become the world’s first hijab-wearing ballerina. After converting to Islam in 2010, Stephanie Kurlow gave up performing as she believed ‘there […]
Texas festival apologizes after Muslim Olympian told to remove hijab
Source: RNS (Reuters) Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival have apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad after a volunteer said she must remove her Muslim headcovering to […]
Afghanistan Women’s Soccer Team Unveils Jerseys With Hijabs
Source: Huffington Post When Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team takes the field in the near future, the players will be decked in a uniform that marks both their country’s deep-seated […]
Will America’s Olympic Flag Bearer Be Wearing a Hijab?
Source: The New Yorker Growing up, in Maplewood, New Jersey, where her father was a narcotics detective and her mother a special-education teacher, Ibtihaj Muhammad competed in softball, tennis, volleyball, […]
Is Hijab An Obstacle for Muslim Women Living In Canada?
Source: The Huffington Post When I made the decision to move to Canada, I was terrified. I feared that I would not be able to get used to life here. […]
Video: Australia Beauty Queen Rachael Finch wears Hijab for a day
Islam in Australia is a minority religious affiliation. According to the 2011 census, 476,291 people, or 2.2% of the total Australian population, were Muslims.[1] This made Islam the fourth largest […]
Stupid Questions Asked to Muslim Women
Source: Huffington Post By Asmaa AbuMezied Researcher, Economic Development and Social Change Fellow As a Muslim woman, I had my share of questions regarding my religion, my culture and my so […]
Video: One Filmmaker’s Mission To Humanize Women Who Wear The Hijab
Huff Post: Faiza Ambah joins HuffPost Live to discuss her critically-acclaimed film, “Mariam.” Her film tells the story of a veiled Muslim teenager who must decide between keeping her hijab, […]
City of Ottawa to celebrate World Hijab Day on 25th
This Thursday, February 25, 2016, the city of Ottawa will be holding a public event celebrating the hijab, to show solidarity with Muslim women and diffuse Islamophobia. The City for […]
SWITZERLAND: Thousands demand headscarf ban in Valais
SCHOOL DRESSCODE FEB 22, 2016 – 20:54 Two young women studying in Zurich (Keystone) With an eye on Muslim hijab, Swiss People’s Party members in canton Valais have collected more than 4,000 signatures calling for a ban on headgear in public schools – despite a recent federal court decision rejecting […]
Bosnia Judicial Authorities Uphold Hijab Ban, Despite Protests
Source: RFERL Bosnia-Herzegovina’s supervising judicial authority has upheld a ban on wearing the Islamic head scarf and other religious symbols in courts and other legal institutions. The decision to uphold […]
Meet Hijarbie, the popular doll wearing Muslim fashion
Source: Aljazeera An Instagram account featuring a doll wearing the Islamic veil in a number of fashionable ways has attracted tens of thousands of followers. Haneefah Adam, a 24-year-old Masters […]