World Cup: Nouhaila Benzina’s hijab a symbol for inclusivity
Story by Janek Speight • Morocco defied the odds at their debut World Cup, as the first Arab nation to compete in the women’s tournament. But defender Nouhaila Benzina’s choice of […]
CNews Islamophobic remarks spark outrage on World Cup hijab moment
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL AUG 03, 2023 Morocco’s Nouhaila Benzina in action during the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 Group H match against Korea Republic, […]
French women’s football organization makes gains against veil ban
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP PARIS JUN 26, 2023 – 9:50 PM GMT+3 Girl wearing her hijab playing as a goal keeper in a high school football youth tournament in this […]
Iran to disband morality police amid ongoing protests, says attorney general
Related Topics By Siavash Ardalan & Marita Moloney BBC Persian Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general […]
Women wearing burqas in public face $990 fine under Swiss draft law
Promoted post: Hijab: Quran is to be Understood in the Context of Time – Every One Knows It But Does Not Say It Switzerland’s government has drafted a new law to […]
Video Animation: Iran’s Hijab Protests
Inspired by the custodial death of #MahsaAmini over improper hijab, Iranian artist Bahadur Hadizadeh creates an animation of #Tehran‘s Azadi Tower adorned by dark hair blowing in the wind.#IranProtests#IranProtests2022#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/fwrVnYVxUK […]
Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find
Source: The Conversation Penulis Pengungkapan Pooyan Tamimi Arab is the secretary of the non-profit research institute GAMAAN. Ammar Maleki is the director of the non-profit research institute GAMAAN. The Muslim […]
France discriminated against hijab-wearing vocational trainee -U.N. document
PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) – A United Nations committee ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing […]
‘My hijab makes me powerful’: The Yemeni-American teen whose painting will hang in the US Capitol
Sally Almaklani says she hopes her painting will inspire confidence in young Muslim women that wear the hijab, as well as countering Islamophobia By Zainab Iqbal 19 July 2022 Sally Almaklani […]
One Hijabi at a time: Fatima Payman becomes first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in Australian parliament
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: If Muslims can control their Taliban and let their women flourish and overcome sectarianism, Many of the democratic Islamic values will win during this […]
Taliban morality police tighten their grip on Afghan women
Source: Washington Post By Susannah George KABUL — As Abdullah Obeid and his team boarded a bus in central Kabul, female passengers lowered their gaze and hurriedly adjusted headscarves to cover […]
Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Mohsen Baharvand ordered back to Tehran after video shows some women with heads uncovered at embassy reception The Iranian ambassador to the UK […]
Video: A Sikh MP in Defense of the Muslim Hijab in UK Parliament
The Muslim Times has the best collection for interfaith tolerance, secularism and modest dressing and to refute Islamophobia. Tanmanjeet Singh “Tan” Dhesi MP (born 17 August 1978) is a British Labour Party politician.[2][3] He was elected as […]
Hijab protests spread in India as girls refuse to be told what not to wear
By Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri and Swati Gupta, CNN Updated 4:52 AM ET, Thu February 10, 2022 (CNN) A burqa-wearing college student has become a symbol of resistance in India’s Karnataka state, where […]
India shuts schools after hijab ban protests intensify
BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP UDIPI, INDIA FEB 08, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Indian student activists from Muslim Students Federation (MSF) hold placards during a protest against hijab (headscarf) restriction, […]
Muslim footballers challenge French hijab ban during games
Source: Arab News ‘We pay for club membership, we give 100% in training, and on match days we are told we cannot play’ French Football Federation out of step with […]
World Hijab Day – We Asked Muslim Women What the Hijab Means to Them
Source: The Review of Religions Since 2013, World Hijab Day has been celebrated internationally on February 1st. It was the initiative of New Yorker Nazma Khan (#WorldHijabDay), and its purpose is ‘To […]
Vogue France says ‘yes to the headscarf.’ Some Muslim women are not happy
Vogue France has been criticized after publishing a social media post that many users branded as offensive to Muslim women amid a culture of increasingly public Islamophobia in France. Sharing a photo on Instagram on […]
The French Senate has voted in favour of banning the wearing of hijab in sports competitions
The French Senate has voted in favour of banning the wearing of hijab in sports competitions https://t.co/e62D5cHYhh pic.twitter.com/0Lj9FxXJIQ — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 20, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Suggested reading and […]
Islamomania and Islamophobia: Do these justify each other?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times On 3 December 2021: Priyantha Kumara a Sri Lankan manager of a sports equipment factory in Punjab, Sialkot was tortured […]