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Police Scotland have said they will do “anything” to be more “diverse” and will be introducing a special hijab to encourage more female Muslims to join the force. The Scottish Police authority released a detailed report on how they are

Iran has arrested eight people in a crackdown against women who “promote immoral and un-Islamic culture and promiscuity,” by appearing on Instagram without wearing the mandatory hijab head covering.

The Huffington Post published an article Wednesday entitled, “The Beautiful Reasons Why These Women Love Wearing A Hijab.” In publishing propaganda like this, the Huffington Post would be in danger of losing its credibility — that is, if it had any.

The decision of the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, to reject the application of a Muslim woman, citing her religious dress code, has sparked a heated debate in the Arab world.

Paris (AFP) – Students at an elite Paris university sparked fierce debate Wednesday by inviting classmates to wear the Muslim veil for a day in a bid to “demystify” a practice that is highly divisive in France. Students at Sciences

Qatar’s government-owned Islamweb.net is showing a video in which an Islamic mother teaches her daughter that Muslim girls who do not wear the hijab or who wear clothing that shows their arms, legs, or hair are “closer to Satan.”

Danish sportswear company Hummel has designed a soccer jersey with a hijab for the Afghan women’s team so they can play the game while observing their faith.

A British National Health Service (NHS) hospital trust has developed official hijabs which they call “multi-faith dignity gowns” to protect the “modesty” of patients, after local Muslims apparently complained about standard hospital gowns. The hijabs, which can also function as niqab due

A new Muslim, hijab-wearing Barbie doll has taken Instagram by storm.

President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore Wednesday but, according to activists, women who attended the mosque regularly pray in a separate balcony space.

Some non-Muslim women in the United States and other countries voluntarily donned the “hijab” on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women.

Local Muslim and civil rights leaders gathered in San Diego on Monday to show “solidarity” with Muslim women wearing headscarves while taking familiar jabs at “political candidates” for “anti-Muslim prejudice.”

A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.

In an op-ed at the Washington Post, Muslims Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa are denouncing the left’s attempts to show “solidarity” with Muslims by inviting schoolgirls and women to don the hijab. Instead, they say Americans are getting “duped” by the Muslim sexist agenda and would rather see Americans stand against the ideology of Islamism that represses women and demands Muslim women cover themselves.

The religious radicals who rule Iran have stepped up their enforcement of male-female separation on the ski slopes, dispatching units to enforce segregation laws high up in the mountains.

A political science professor at Wheaton College is on administrative leave after wearing a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims.

The Muslim Students Association (MSA) of Vernon Hills High School–a public school in Illinois–hosted an event titled “Walk a Mile in Her Hijab,” which was designed to provide non-Muslim students with the opportunity to wear the hijab and understand more about the Muslim faith.

Muslim women in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have launched a campaign to encourage non-Muslims to become familiar with the hijab and why they wear it.

Readers of Sunday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times were presented with a front-page story depicting a sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s Syrian refugee resettlement project.

University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.

A Swedish shopping centre has been forced to apologise after insisting a wall mural they had commissioned did not feature a woman wearing a hijab. The secular organisation said they did not want to display religious symbols. The shopping centre

A struggling girl was denied extra classes at her school in Birmingham, England because she did not wear a hijab, a senior government worker has alleged. Anthony Dunne made the claim while giving evidence against five teachers who worked for

After a video revealed a Zara employee in Paris denying entry to a woman wearing a hijab, the clothing store issued an apology.

The British government is set to award an Islamic education trust that forces students to wear the hijab as part of its school uniform a grant of £millions to teach other schools to achieve the same tests results it currently does.

Celebrating the defeat of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the CBC is framing Canada’s election as a battle of good versus evil, with the heroic Justin Trudeau and his Liberals overcoming the “dark forces” of the Canadian right.

Numerous high schools in Gaza have begun to expel female students because they did not wear headscarves on the first day of school. There is no law that states female students must wear a headscarf, but that did not stop school administrators from punishing those who do not wear one.

Iran’s chief of police announced Wednesday that the Islamic Republic will crack down on women who go rogue and do things such as driving without a proper head covering (hijab).

Pamela Geller discusses her take on Charee Stanley, a Muslim flight attendant suing ExpressJet Airlines.

What began as a silent online protest has sprawled into a raging movement with Iranian women removing their hijabs and posting pictures of their pretty, uncovered hair to flow freely through the wind, a crime that is forbidden and punishable by arrest in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has a history of courting Muslim voters through flirtations with Islamic fundamentalism. This has included addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab.

Egyptian Education Minister Moheb Al-Refaei over the weekend decried the Islamic hijab worn by girls as “unacceptable,” leading to rumors the Ministry would ban the garment from elementary schools. A spokesperson from the Ministry denied this claim on Egyptian television Sunday night.

Buddhist monks in Myanmar have called for a government-enforced ban on headscarves in schools across the country. “When [Muslims] live in Myanmar, they need to obey the laws and regulations of the country. We are not targeting or attacking their religion,” U Pamaukkha, a monk calling for this ban, said.

A sex attacker from Dagenham, east London targeted Muslim women because he had a fetish for hijabs. Emmanuel Ndegwe, 25, was jailed in March for forcing himself on several Somali women after following them into their homes in 2013 and

A male supervisor on a university bus forced a woman to step out because she took off her veil, despite the fact that only other women were seated with her on the bus. The bus was transporting home the female students from the Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University for Women.

On June 1st, the Supreme Court “reversed and remanded” Samantha Elauf’s high profile lawsuit concerning her right to wear a hijab at work back to the Tenth Circuit’s appeals court for further proceedings. Elauf, represented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, had been awarded $20,000 by a jury at the trial level; that award was vacated by the appeals court. Now, when the appeals court revisits the case, they may reinstate that jury award.

Tajikistan’s curious anti-Islam campaign has already seen the government cracking down on beards and hijabs, the traditional female garment in Muslim culture. They have also asked imams to include praise for the secular government in their sermons and applied travel restrictions to Muslim citizens seeking to make the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The beard ban has reportedly been taken as far as the forcible shaving of illegally luxurious facial hair by security forces.