Muslim fashions light up Jakarta Fashion Week
Some fans of the sector say Indonesia could reach its goal of becoming fashion king of the Muslim world well before the government-set goal of 2020. By Cempaka Kaulika for […]
Why hijab is important in Islam
Arab News Friday 23 November 2012 Hijab, or veil, takes the center stage whenever there is battle between truth and falsehood. It has always been a sensitive issue, but it […]
CAIR: Okla. Muslim Told She Needs Bank Escort Because of Hijab
By Council on American-Islamic Relations OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 7, 2012 — Muslim civil rights group asks Tulsa bank to review discriminatory ‘no hats’ policy OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Tulsa’s Valley National Bank to review […]
West’s misconception about Hijab
ARABNEWS by Tanya Cariina Hsu who is a British political analyst specializing in US-Saudi foreign policy Sunday 4 November 2012 DURING a recent dinner conversation in London I was asked, as is predictably guaranteed, about Saudi Arabia, the abaya and hijab. “A mark of oppression and ignorance,” bemoaned a professor […]
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 […]
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, […]
Tax billionaires to help world’s poor: UN (why not ZAKAT?)
AFP ARABNEWS Friday 6 July 2012 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations yesterday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries. An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon […]
Prince Ali stunned by FIFA experts’ hijab knock back
CHICAGO TRIBUNE BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Evidence from FIFA’s medical experts on why the ban on Muslim women footballers wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab should remain in place was deeply flawed and had no foundation, the campaign’s principal supporter said on Friday. Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, whose presentation […]
Hijab is a choice in Indonesia
Anyone who knows well of Indonesia and its Muslim communities should be familiar with the fact that the majority of Muslim women who wear hijab here do not do so […]
TURKISH BEAUTY MAG TIES MUSLIM VEIL TO GLAMOUR
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Can the Muslim headscarf be synonymous with glamour? Turkey’s first fashion magazine for conservative Islamic women looks set to win the challenge. In less than a year […]
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 […]
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 […]
Noble Laureate from Yemen, Tawakul Karman responds to Hijab
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page When asked about her Hijab By Journalists and how it is not proportionate with her […]
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 […]
A Million Hijab March!
I just read an inspirational news in the Huffington Post, One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman, and that gave me an […]
Veils: who are we to judge?
Source: Macleans.ca Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, debate or censure in Western society […]
United Nations urges FIFA to allow hijab headscarf
PST GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — The United Nations has urged FIFA to allow Islamic women to wear a hijab headscarf while playing soccer. The U.N. says Wilfried Lemke, sports adviser […]
“I will not accept this”.
by Markus Schoch, Thurgauer Zeitung (Switzerland) ROMANSHORN. History repeats itself: Twice the people of Romanshorn denied Guelsen Karasu the request for Swiss citizenship. Now the naturalization commission also denies her […]
Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims
Source: The Telegraph Facebook is being cited in almost one in five of online divorce petitions, lawyers have claimed. The social networking site, which connects old friends and allows […]