THE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch lawmakers have voiced opposition to a proposal by Amsterdam’s top police official to consider allowing female Muslim agents to wear headscarfs, Dutch media reported Friday.
A Muslim woman in the French city of Orange has filed a complaint after claiming she was told to remove her Islamic headscarf to vote on Sunday.
The tax-payer funded BBC on Thursday claimed that new rules allowing women to wear a hijab during basketball matches represent “a big step forward in women’s sport”.
A female passenger on Cairo’s metro reportedly tried to cut off a local young woman’s hair off, saying this was because she was not wearing any head covering.
Defying a new Swedish law that prohibits full face coverings at public events, such as political rallies and sports matches, keen football (soccer) fans donned Islamic garments at the game instead.
Britain will not ban the Islamic veil in work or public places, the prime minister has said.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney looked at the growing conflict between Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.
A basketball player from Maryland, Je’Nan Hayes of Watkins Mill High School, showed up to her school’s regional finals game wearing her hijab, the traditional Muslim headgear worn by women, and was disqualified from playing in the game.
Sports clothing manufacturer Nike is introducing a new line of Muslim friendly sportswear which will include a hijab head covering featuring the Nike swoosh brand logo.
A woman filmed “twerking” with a man whilst wearing a hijab in Birmingham has been forced to publicly apologise after the footage went viral and she was sent death threats.
A Texas school district apologized following a reported incident where an administrator incorrectly told female Muslim students they must obtain permission from an imam to wear hijabs in school. Apparently, this was incorrect information.
The inaugural ‘Modest Fashion Week’ took place over the weekend, an event targeted at Muslim consumers and sponsored by a makeup brand who refuse to sell products to supporters of U.S. President Donald J. Trump. According to organisers of the event,
Indonesian fashion designer Anniesa Hasibuan made a political statement at New York Fashion Week this week by exclusively casting immigrant models for her show.
High street department store Debenhams will become the first major high street outlet in the United Kingdom to sell the hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf which leaves the face partially uncovered.
A number of MPs have dressed in hijabs in Westminster Hall to celebrate World Hijab Day (WHD), which normalises Islamic veiling and promotes “modest” dress.
PRAGUE (AP) — A Czech court has dismissed a complaint by a Somali student who accused a nursing school of discrimination because she wears a hijab.
A Labour party councillor has attacked a Roman Catholic school for insisting a 4-year-old girl conforms to their uniform policy by not wearing an Islamic headscarf to class.
Has there been one (1) documented hate crime committed by white people against any hue in the Rainbow Coalition since Nov. 8? That’s out of the 9,456,723 hate crimes alleged by America’s leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is to “hate” what Rolling Stone is to rape. It is the biggest peddler of fantasies since Walt Disney.
Another anti-Muslim hate crime has been debunked, this one in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a Muslim student’s claim that she was threatened for wearing her Muslim headscarf was discovered to be a hoax.
After a Muslim woman faked a hate crime where she alleged President-Elect Donald Trump supporters attacked her on a subway as New Yorkers looked on, Newsweek is now saying the hoax “highlights pressures” on Muslim teen girls.
A Muslim woman who drummed up mainstream media hysteria claiming she was attacked on a New York City subway by President-Elect Donald Trump supporters is now under arrest for fabricating the hate crime and filing a false police report.
An Iranian court in Shirz has sentenced 12 Iranian men and women who work in the fashion industry to between five months and up to six years in prison for “spreading prostitution” by posting images online.
TEL AVIV – Only one in 25 British Muslims believe Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist group was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, a new poll has found.
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana – A Muslim student who reported her hijab was pulled from her head and was robbed by President-Elect Donald Trump supporters will now face charges for the false claims.
LAFAYETTE, Louisiana – After a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) claimed that her hijab and wallet were stolen by two President-Elect Donald Trump supporters, police announced the claim was fabricated.
A St. Louis area Muslim woman has filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against a security company that recommended she not be hired, a Muslim activist group says.
Female Iranian chess players have hit back at calls by opponents of the country’s Islamic dress code for a boycott of February’s world championships in Tehran, saying the campaign hurts Iranian women.
A Muslim journalist has become the first woman to pose in a hijab in this month’s issue of Playboy magazine.
A Muslim fashion designer made history this week by debuting the first fashion collection to feature traditional Muslim hijabs in every look during New York Fashion Week.
One of the UK’s largest police forces has said they “don’t have any barriers” to Muslim women wearing a burka on the job, and are “consider[ing]” introducing the full-face garment into their uniform.
Iranian police have shut down over 800 clothes shops to prevent them from selling “unconventional” women’s coats known as a “manteau.”
A leading team of Oxford University sociologists has published a paper arguing that Muslim women veil “because they are engaging with a modern, secular world”, arguing that bans “deprive them of a means… for integration”.
An Oklahoma man is demanding that a “religious” image of a woman wearing a hijab be removed from a library vehicle because it promotes Islam on public property.
Fox2Detroit reported Thursday that “a Muslim woman said her boss fired her because she refused to remove her hijab at work. Najaf Khan said the highly controversial comments recently in the political arena are making it harder for people of the Islamic faith and she sees her story as an example of that.”
A Fox 6 report says a Muslim woman in Indiana was asked to leave a Family Dollar store for wearing full Islamic garb, and the woman recorded the incident on video. Thirty-two-year-old Sarah Safi says she had just entered a Gary, IN Family Dollar
Per a Fox 2 report, a Muslim woman says she was fired from her new job because she refused to remove her hijab. Najaf Khan entered her third day on the job Monday wearing her hijab for the first time
Up to 150 people have been detained in Iran after the morality police raided what has been described as a mixed-gender party near Tehran.
The press regulator has received more than 800 complaints after The Sun published an article questioning why a hijab-wearing Muslim was chosen to anchor Channel 4’s coverage of the Islamist terrorist attack in Nice last week.
The European Court of Justice has made a ruling declaring it illegal for a business to fire a woman because she wore a hijab to work, saying customers and employers should get used to it. The case was brought to
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) – The EU’s top court faced a dilemma Wednesday after a top legal officer said it was discriminatory for a firm to tell an employee to remove a Muslim headscarf, contradicting an earlier opinion in a separate case.