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The head of Ofsted has defended single-sex schools after a court ruled that gender segregation at the UK’s first state-funded Muslim school was a form of discrimination.

A Muslim school in Sweden is forcing girls to the back of its school buses with one Swedish expert comparing the move to the racial segregation in the American south during the civil rights era.

Muslim girls in Switzerland must attend mixed gender swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights (UNHCR) has ruled.

TEL AVIV – A Saudi academic has called on Muslims to adapt themselves to the modern age by reforming mosques to be more like churches, with mixed prayers, seating and dim lighting, and to change the “fanatical and sexualized” perception

When a teenager in Saudi Arabia began chatting up an American woman online, he first found fame and then notoriety before he was arrested over concerns that his clumsy cyber flirtation violated the kingdom’s conservative norms.

A women’s association in the city of Marseille, which has a large Muslim population, has caused outrage in secular France with its plans to rent a swimming pool for a day only for women, and saying they must be covered up chest to knees.

A public swimming pool in Luton is holding gender-segregated swimming sessions on a Friday, with staff stating it is a “cultural thing”. Bathers were given sudden notice that from the 29th of July the competitive pool at Inspire Sports Village in Luton

The ‘feminist’ president of the Students’ Union at a top British university has defended an Islamic Society event where men and women were segregated by a 7-foot tall barrier, despite the practice being illegal on UK campuses. The Islamic society

Birmingham’s education commissioner has banned teachers from mentioning the ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamist plot in the very schools that hardline Muslim teachers and parents attempted to take over. Sir Mike Tomlinson, who was appointed in the wake of the controversy, said the

Muslim students at a German university have seized control of a “silent room” designed as a space for all pupils, transforming it into a makeshift mosque and erecting a wall to segregate genders. There are also feet washing facilities and signs instructing women

An independent Islamic school in southern England has excluded a student for talking to a student of the opposite sex just weeks after receiving an ‘outstanding’ grading from Ofsted. The school said the pupil’s behaviour was in violation of its

JAFFA, ISRAEL – A woman has been selected to head a boys’ school in the United Arab Emirates because of the lack of suitable male candidates, the local press has reported.  The unprecedented appointment of Ras al-Khaima went through smoothly,

Austria’s integration minister has slammed the country’s national employment service for offering segregated courses to Middle Eastern immigrants. He said that the move undermined Austria’s fundamental values and sent the wrong message to newly-arrived immigrants. The courses, run by The

Armed jihadists broke into three departments at the University of Aden in southern Yemen on Monday, distributing leaflets signed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and threatening death to university authorities if they do not enforce a strict separation of the sexes.