Are All Faiths Able to Participate in and Benefit From the Games?
Huff Post: Dr Emma Tarlo Earlier this month FIFA overturned its ban on the wearing of hijab in competitive football just in time for the London Olympics but too late […]
Headscarf ruling may threaten Saudi participation
Metro News: LONDON – A competitor from Saudi Arabia, who is one of the country’s first female athletes ever selected for the Olympics, will not be allowed to wear a headscarf during competition, the International Judo Federation said. President Marius Vizer ruled that “according to the principles and spirit of […]
LCBO serves underage boy wearing burka, face veil
Toronto Sun: TORONTO – Three liquor stores in the GTA recently sold booze to a 14-year-old boy whose identity was hidden because he was wearing a full-length burka and face veil at the time. The teenager, clad in an Islamic female’s traditional garb of a burka, headscarf and facial covering, […]
Hijab tutorial book
Another hijab tutorial book launched REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The trend of Muslim clothes in Indonesia is related with hijab –or headscarf- trend. Boutique and hijab community, or known as hijabers, […]
FIJISUN – Islam updates around the globe
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
French Muslim footballers cannot wear headscarves, says sporting authority
France’s soccer federation said it would not allow women to wear Muslim headscarves. Source: THE TELEGRAPH By Devorah Lauter, Paris The decision, announced on Friday night, was despite a ruling on Thursday that they could, by the FIFA umbrella organization which sets the rules of the game. The French Football […]
FIFA approves goal line technology, Islamic headscarf
AGENCIES ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 ZURICH: Goal-line technology to confirm whether or not a goal has been scored and the use of the Islamic headscarf were approved by soccer’s […]
The hijab has liberated me from society’s expectations of women
the guardian: When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? Certainly not – feminism is far better known for burnt bras and slut-walks than headscarves. There is much misunderstanding about how women relate to their hijab. Some, of course, choose the headcover […]
UAE women’s Twitter campaign against skimpy dress
By Eman Mohammed (AFP) ABU DHABI — The UAE may be the Gulf’s most liberal Arab state but two local women have caused a stir with an online campaign against […]
Safer Headscarf Designs For Muslim Women Athletes Requested By FIFA Doctors
Huff Post BUDAPEST, Hungary — FIFA’s medical advisers say new designs are needed because headscarfs worn by Muslim women players could lead to head and neck injuries. Michel D’Hooghe, chairman of FIFA’s medical committee, says samples received from two designers “represented a danger” to players’ health. Soccer’s rules-making panel has […]
Is the ‘Hijab’ Discriminatory to Women?
Huffington Post: There is a camp of feminists out there who would like us to believe that wearing the hijab is a discriminatory, male-biased, patriarchal practice, note the article by Adele-Wilde Blavatsky on […]
Is It Safe for a Muslim Woman to Wear the Hijab in America?
Everybody has heard about the tragic Trayvon Martin murder. Far fewer, however, are aware of the brutal killing of Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi-born American citizen and mother of five, in her home near San Diego. There are conflicting reports about the facts of the crime. In some accounts, a note was found […]
Britain’s far right to focus on anti-Islamic policy
the guardian The head of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, will be named deputy leader of the British Freedom party this week after proposing that the group adopt virulent anti-Islamic policies as its central strategy. Confirmation that Robinson is to be offered a political platform within the BFP is contained […]
Do Arabs Really ‘Hate’ Women? The Problem With Native Informants
Huff Post “Why Do They Hate Us?” asks the latest cover ofForeign Policy magazine. Beneath the title stands a cowering woman wearing nothing but black body paint resembling the niqab, or full Islamic face veil. Egyptian feminist Mona Eltahawy authored the article. Her central contention — that Arab Muslim culture “hates” […]
Sally Mauk: Islam promotes equality, American Muslim woman says
Source: Missoulian Aisha Rahman is a American-born Muslim raised in a small town in Tennessee, where her father was a doctor at a small hospital. Her family had emigrated earlier […]
Headscarves – Oppression or freedom of choice?
Headscarves – Oppression or freedom of choice? The review of religions (September 2003 , Vol.98,No9) In September of this year, a German court ruled that a school in the southern state of Baden Wuttemberg was wrong under current legislation to exclude a female teacher for insisting on wearing a headscarf […]
Muslims in Switzerland “lack legal protection”
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Muslims in Switzerland face discrimination, while the country allows legislative gaps on racism to remain open, an Amnesty International report has claimed. The report, entitled Choice […]
Flag Football Team Wears Hijab To Support Irum Khan, Muslim Player, At Florida School
Huff Post A flag football team took a stand against discrimination by donning hijabs in support of their Muslim teammate. Members of the West Broward High School team wore the traditional […]
Hijab Asserts Women: Rowan Williams
Source: onislam CAIRO – The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that hijab is a personal choice for Muslim women that can help them “assert themselves” in communities with different cultures, The Week reported. “She told me how she would wear her veil and yet take part, too, in […]
Students don hijabs in show of solidarity
Source: The Commercial Appeal Every Hijabi has a story. Hajar Sakhi, a Rhodes College student from Nashville, was working at a fast-food restaurant in high school. One day, a customer looked at her wearing a uniform visor over her headscarf and started laughing. He left without ordering. “My manager said, […]