(Arab News) MPs in the UK have proposed making it a criminal offense to possess images of Muslim women not wearing hijabs without their consent. The suggestion was made in a report by the House of Commons’ women and equalities committee, which […]
(CTV) The federal government is officially intervening in the appeal of Quebec’s religious symbols law at Canada’s highest court. The attorney general of Canada filed a notice with the Supreme Court about its intention to “intervene, to file a factum, and to […]
(CBC) Quebec’s education minister said Friday the government is considering expanding its ban on religious symbols to include daycare supervisors and other school aides. Bernard Drainville told Radio-Canada’s Tout un matin he was concerned that there are some school staff members who […]
(DPA) Austria’s next government could ban girls up to the age of 14 from wearing headscarves, under the terms of a coalition deal reached by three centrist parties on Thursday. According to the parties’ programme, presented in Vienna, a ban is being […]
(ANSA) The right-wing League party has proposed banning the burqa in Venice, local dailies reported Thursday. The motion filed by council whip Alex Bazzaro envisages a DASPO city ban for those wearing the Islamic veil in public. “We ask the mayor,” Bazzaro […]
(AFP) France’s right-dominated Senate has backed a bill to ban religious symbols including the Muslim headscarf in all sport competitions, professional and amateur, sparking accusations of discrimination from the left and rights advocates. The bill still needs a majority of votes from […]
(AP) Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions. The bill is backed by right-wing senators and will be debated from Tuesday in the upper house of the French parliament. […]
(Western Standard) Sweden has a problem with so-called honour killings against women and girls. The Swedish Police Authority has tracked honour-related crimes since 2019, reporting around 4,500 suspected cases by November 2021. Recent unverified reports on social media highlight the severity of […]
(NL Times) Rabobank used potentially discriminatory criteria to identify possible terrorist financing in customer transactions, according to an internal document from 2017 obtained by Argos. The document outlined transactions flagged for further scrutiny, including the purchase of visas for Turkey, Islamic clothing, […]
(GB News) West Midlands Police has reissued a mugshot of a convicted Islamic State terrorist after she complained about not wearing a niqab in the original photograph. Farishta Jami, 36, was found guilty of terrorism offences on Thursday for planning to fly […]
(European Conservative) Negotiations between the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP) to form the next Austrian government have still not come to a conclusion, following a month of talks. The one issue both parties have come to an […]
(Anadolu) A French judge expelled Tunisian-French activist Hager Barkous from a courtroom in Nice last Friday because she was wearing a hijab. Barkous, 31, had attended the hearing of a fellow activist on trial for incitement to hatred after calling for a […]
(ANSA) Teachers at a high school in the northeastern town of Monfalcone near Trieste privately lift the niqab of five female students to ID them, local daily Il Piccolo reported on Tuesday, saying the case has sparked a protest of the local […]
(CBC) With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear a challenge against Quebec’s controversial secularism law, Bill 21, Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, presumed front-runners to replace Justin Trudeau, say they encourage the prime minister to follow through on his word to have […]
(Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to hear a challenge of Quebec’s secularism law sets up a final legal battle between the provincial government and minority and civil rights groups — and possibly a showdown between Quebec and Ottawa. The […]
(ANSA) It is common sense to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces in Italy, League leader Matteo Salvini said after the right-wing party filed a bill banning the veil and setting jail terms of up to two years for husbands who […]
(Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada will announce next week whether it will hear a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21. The groups seeking leave to appeal say they have been informed the country’s highest court is expected […]
(WBIR) The Davidson County sheriff provided a declaration in a federal lawsuit about his department’s policy surrounding arrestees who wear religious head coverings. Layla Soliz, who practices Islam, is suing Knox County and the sheriff because she said a sheriff’s office employee […]
(European Conservative) Austrian citizens’ desire for Muslims to adapt to Austrian culture is “Islamophobic,” the country’s state broadcaster has claimed. According to a recently released study by the University of Vienna, 75% of Austrians agreed with the statement that Muslims should adapt […]
(Algemeiner) US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), one of the most strident opponents of Israel in Congress, wore a Palestinian keffiyeh to the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, commemorating the late American leader’s advocacy against so-called “apartheid” in the Jewish state. “Rest […]
(Morocco World News) The controversial burqa ban has officially taken effect today, January 1, in Switzerland, prohibiting the wearing of full-face coverings in public spaces. The law, which passed through a nationwide referendum in 2021, echoes an ever-growing wave of restrictions and […]
(Brussels Times) The province of Flemish Brabant has been accused of discrimination for banning full-body swimsuits at the Halve Maan provincial domain in Diest, according to a ruling by the Flemish Human Rights Institute on Monday. In July 2023, a community centre […]
(Dutch News) Council street wardens, or BOAs, should have “a neutral image” and will not be allowed to wear any religious symbols from next year, justice minister David van Weel has said in a briefing to MPs. The measure will “strengthen public […]
(Yle) Finland’s interior minister, Mari Rantanen (Finns), has confirmed to Yle that she supports a proposal put forward by 14 of her party colleagues earlier this week calling for a ban on face coverings in public places. The proposal would effectively mean […]
(NY Post) The anti-Israel agitator who wore a Hezbollah t-shirt and a mask while threatening a Jewish man on a Manhattan train was slapped with a hate crime charge on Wednesday, police said. Christopher Husary, 37, was charged with an attempted hate […]
(Swiss Info) From January 1, 2025, it will be forbidden to cover the face in public places throughout Switzerland. Violations can be punished with a fine of up to CHF1,000 (about $1,143). On Wednesday, the Swiss government decided to put the new […]
(Canadian Press) A national Muslim advocacy group says Montreal would send the wrong message if it takes down a welcome sign in the lobby at city hall that generated controversy because it included a woman wearing a hijab. Stephen Brown, chief executive […]
(Canadian Press) A welcome sign in the lobby of Montreal’s newly renovated city hall depicting a woman wearing a headscarf will be removed in the name of secularism, Montreal’s mayor says, following criticism that the image is offensive. Valérie Plante said during […]
(Anadolu) UN experts on Monday called on France to reverse “discriminatory measures” banning women and girls who choose to wear the hijab from doing so while playing sports. The experts said in a statement that the decisions by the French football and […]
(Radio France) France saw a drop in cases of students flouting France’s strict secularism rules, or laicite, at the start of this school year, according to the new education minister Anne Genetet, who also called for more training for teachers in how […]
(AFP) Weaving between market stalls in the working-class Brussels district of Molenbeek, Fouad Ahidar likes to remind voters he was a market vendor himself as a teenager — driving home his credentials as a people’s politician. Something of a rising star on […]
(Euronews) An 18-year-old student was taken into police custody on Monday evening after allegedly assaulting her teacher at Lycée Sévigné in the northern French city of Tourcoing. The incident reportedly happened after the teacher asked the student to remove her headscarf, as […]
(Brussels Times) The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) did not make a decision on Thursday regarding the case of two Belgian women who believe that a police regulation prohibiting them from going swimming in a burkini constitutes religious discrimination. The ECHR’s […]
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(NY Post) Maybe it was lost in translation. A longtime French teacher claims the Upper East Side’s elite, all-girls Spence School fired her for giving a straightforward answer about France’s controversial hijab law — which triggered the principal’s daughter so much she […]
(Reuters) Days before the Paris Olympics began, French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla was stuck in a row with her government over the right to wear a hijab at the opening ceremony. But after a last-gasp compromise was found — in the shape of […]
(AP) French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla will be allowed to participate in the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics wearing a cap to cover her hair, an agreement reached with the French Olympic Committee after Sylla said she was barred because of her […]
(AP) French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from Friday’s opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because she wears a hijab, and the French Olympic Committee said it is working with her to find a solution that adheres to the […]
(Arab News) Amnesty International has accused France of breaking international human rights law by enforcing a ban on women competing at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris wearing headscarves. In a report on the ban published on Tuesday, Amnesty also accused the […]
(Deutsche Welle) In 2015, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled against a general headscarf ban for teachers, saying that such a ban was incompatible with the freedom of religion guaranteed in the German Constitution. Nine years later, the same court is again addressing […]
(NBC) Delta Airlines apologized Thursday after its X account sympathized with a post that incorrectly said two flight attendants with Palestinian flag pins were wearing “Hamas badges.” An X user by the handle “ilikeTeslas” had tweeted Tuesday: “Since 2001 we take our […]
(Canadian Press) After concerns of bias raised by the Quebec government and others, a Supreme Court of Canada justice will not participate in deliberations about whether the high court will hear an appeal to the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21. […]
(CBC) The Quebec government is requesting that Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal recuse himself from hearing the challenge to the province’s secularism law because he was board president for one of the plaintiffs. In letters sent to the registrar of the Supreme […]
(BBC) A man who was found guilty of wearing a headband in support of Hamas at a pro-Palestine rally in central London has been given a conditional discharge. Khaled Hajsaad, 24, wore the green headband which had the basic statement of the […]
(AFP) Muslim voters are increasingly worried about the prospect of a far-right victory less than two weeks before France’s snap parliamentary elections, fearing the possible restrictions that could follow. For Sarah, there’s a “real risk” of seeing the National Rally (RN) win […]
(CityNews) About 71 per cent of Muslim women surveyed in Quebec considered leaving the province for work due to the [effects] of Bill 21, during the pandemic. This is according to a new study published by the National Council of Canadian Muslims […]
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday France needed a new debate on secularism rules that ban religious symbols from classrooms and some sports, as he sought to rally support before snap elections. “There is this feeling that secularism is not always well […]
(AFP) French Muslim basketball player Diaba Konate Tuesday said she had hoped to represent her country at the Paris Olympics but did not stand a chance because she wears a headscarf. “Despite my desire and skills, I’m … not actually allowed to […]
(CBC) One of Canada’s most prominent Muslim advocacy groups used part of its time in front of a Commons committee studying Islamophobia Thursday to attack a controversial Quebec law that bars most public sector employees from wearing religious clothing or symbols on the job. […]
(Times of Israel) London’s Metropolitan Police is attempting to identify a man seen walking through the capital city wearing a Manchester United soccer shirt with the word “Hamas” and a large 7 emblazoned on the back, seemingly in reference to the October […]
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