Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf_6wJSBsY2/embed/captioned/?cr=1&v=8&wp=1316#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A3292.500000000018%7D 450 Huda Fahmy, an American Muslim artist, often gets questions from non-Muslims about her hijab, the headscarf she chooses to wear as part […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Efforts to bar girls from wearing the hijab at primary schools were “naked racism dressed up as liberalism”, a teachers’ union conference heard as […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Education editor Amanda Spielman has called for ‘muscular liberalism’ to promote British values in schools. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Efforts to bar girls […]
Source: The Guardian By Philip Oltermann Figures published this week show that 29 charges have been issued citing the ‘anti-face-veiling act’. Photograph: Adithya Sambamurthy/The Guardian for the Guardian An Austrian […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sadia Reza For nearly two decades now, being an American Muslim has come to mean seeing my faith eviscerated in headlines everywhere I go, feeling the […]
Source: Academia.edu By T.O. SHANAVAS According to the current perception in Muslim society a head-cover (Hijab) for women is one of the Islamic obligations. Many Muslims believe that the head-cover is not enough to […]
Source: Swiss Info By Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – The Norwegian government proposed on Friday a nationwide ban on the wearing of full-face veils, such as the burqa and the […]
Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling […]
Source: Reuters RIYADH (Reuters) – Women in Saudi Arabia need not wear headcover or the black abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of Islamic piety – as long as […]
Source: Associated Press By LARRY NEUMEISTER Mar. 16, 2018 NEW YORK (AP) — Two arrested Muslim women who said the police department forced them to remove their religious head coverings […]
Source: The Washington Post By Erin Cunningham March 8 ISTANBUL — Iranian women have been raising a new challenge to their Islamic government, breaking one of its most fundamental rules by pulling off […]
Source: CNN By Hannah Ritchie, CNN Editor’s Note: CNN is committed to covering gender inequality wherever it occurs in the world. This story is part of As Equals, a year-long […]
Reuters International This content was published on March 7, 2018 A woman wearing a full-face veil shops for clothes in a traditional textile market in Jakarta, Indonesia March 7, […]
New York: The city of New York has agreed to pay $180,000 (Dh661,000) to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have mug shots taken, officials said Wednesday. Each of the women is to receive $60,000 after the settlements were finalized in a Brooklyn federal court […]
It’s my America too,’ says the first Muslim television reporter in the U.S to wear a hijab. Tahera Rahman is ushering in a new era of broadcast journalism for Americans, showing that everyone deserves to be represented. Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/27/america-just-got-its-first-full-time-muslim-tv-reporter-who-wears-a-hijab-7344956/?ito=cbshare
Source: CNN By Katy Scott, CNN Clothes from the Verona Collection which is being stocked at department store Macy’s. (CNN)American department store Macy’s sparked a fierce debate on Thursday, when […]
Islamic group launches hijab billboard campaign,” by Marcella Raymond, WGN, February 19, 2018:http://wgntv.com/2018/02/19/islamic-group-launches-hijab-billboard-campaign/ OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. — A local Islamic group launched a billboard campaign Monday to educate people about the hijab, the headscarf that’s often worn by Muslim women. The billboards are the first of their kind in the country, designed […]
Source: Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi women need not wear the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith – a senior member of the top Muslim clerical […]
Riyadh – Saudi women should not have to wear the abaya in public, a senior cleric said, in the latest sign of a far-reaching liberalisation drive. Read more: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-women-need-not-wear-abaya-senior-cleric-1.2171517
Source: The New Yorker By Robin Wright It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s busy Enghelab […]
