(Canadian Press) The speaker of Ontario’s legislature is allowing politicians, staff and visitors to enter the building while wearing a keffiyeh, loosening what had amounted to a ban on the scarf, while maintaining a prohibition inside the legislative chamber. Sarah Jama, who […]
(Stanford Daily) Amid unrest on college campuses across the country, Stanford reiterated that student protestors camping overnight in White Plaza are violating campus policies and may face suspension. A photo of an unidentified individual at the encampment, who wore a green headband […]
(CBC) Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles has given Premier Doug Ford a deadline to step in and reverse the ban on the wearing of keffiyehs at the provincial legislature or else she says the NDP will defy the ban. In a video […]
(Christian Science Monitor) It was a Friday afternoon in October 2020, and Coralie, a junior high school French teacher at Collège du Bois d’Aulne, had just gone for a walk in the nearby woods with her dog to clear her mind before […]
(CTV) MPP Sarah Jama was asked to leave the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by House Speaker Ted Arnott on Thursday for wearing a keffiyeh, a garment which has been banned at Queen’s Park. Jama, however, refused to leave the chamber. “Sarah Jama, […]
(GB News) A 25-year-old man has been found guilty of arousing suspicion he was supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation after he wore a Hamas headband at a pro-Palestine rally in London. Khaled Hajsaad, from Birmingham, [attended] the protest on November 25, 2023. […]
(BBC) A man accused of wearing a headband in support of Hamas told police it was a “statement of faith,” a court heard. Khaled Hajsaad, 24, wore the clothing at a pro-Palestine rally in central London where he was arrested by police, […]
(CTV) Individuals being barred from entering Ontario’s legislature while wearing a keffiyeh say the garment is part of their cultural identity — and the only ones making it political are the politicians banning it. On Monday, Kitchener resident Beisan Zubi drove to […]
(Canadian Press) The keffiyeh took centre stage at the Ontario legislature Tuesday as protesters unfurling the scarves were ejected from the public galleries and an independent member draped one over her shoulders in open defiance of a speaker’s ban on the attire. […]
(CTV) A motion to reverse a ban on the keffiyeh within Queen’s Park failed to receive unanimous consent Thursday just moments after Ontario Premier Doug Ford reiterated his view that prohibiting the garment in the House is divisive. “We see the division […]
(CTV) Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Speaker Ted Arnott to reverse a ban on keffiyehs at Queen’s Park, describing the move as “needlessly” divisive. “The decision to ban the keffiyeh was made by the speaker and the speaker alone. I […]
(Algemeiner) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has accused the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of fanning the flames of hate and called for the firing of its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, for a recent comment he made that it was unacceptable for someone wearing […]
(Fox) The New York City Police Department defended the actions of its officers by releasing bodycam video that showed an officer gently helping a woman with her hijab after the radical anti-Israel activist claimed she was “brutalized” and her hijab was ripped […]
(Canadian Press) French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal used his visit to Quebec this week to express strong support for the province’s model of state secularism even as he claimed to abstain from weighing in on debates over the controversial policy. And despite […]
(European Conservative) The last few weeks of Ramadan and the feast of Eid-el-Fitr have been accompanied in France by an upsurge in violence and intimidation. Its targets are people accused by members of the Muslim community of not respecting the principles of […]
(CTV) The debate over the constitutionality of Quebec’s secularism law is poised to go to the Supreme Court of Canada. On Wednesday evening, the English Montreal School Board (EMSB) voted in favour of asking Canada’s top court to rule on Bill 21 […]
(Courthouse News) New York City agreed on Friday to pay a $17.5 million settlement to resolve a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought by New York women who were forced to remove their religious headscarves in NYPD mugshot photos for the department’s facial […]
(AFP) The French government on Thursday launched an investigation after a 14-year-old girl was temporarily left comatose after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers in the south of France. The three alleged attackers, including a girl who was at […]
(AFP) French lawmakers and officials joined dozens of people who gathered in Paris on Friday in a show of support for a school principal who resigned after receiving death threats in a hijab row. This week the headmaster at the Maurice-Ravel senior […]
(Radio France) French Education Minister Nicole Belloubet on Friday announced the creation of a national “mobile force” to be deployed to schools facing security issues. The move comes amid a spate of death threats directed at teaching staff. “This school force will […]
(AFP) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises. Attal, a former education minister, said the state […]
(Yle) The Court of Appeal in Turku has ruled that police officers were justified in their actions when they forcibly removed hijab head coverings from two female asylum seekers during an incident at a police station in the city of Hämeenlinna in […]
(WBKO) A lawsuit filed in federal court in November 2023 against staff at the Warren County Regional Jail by a Muslim woman alleging deprivation of her religious rights has taken a new turn. The lawsuit alleges the woman was made to remove […]
(Dutch News) Caretaker justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz has said she will supersede local council powers to allow city wardens to wear a headscarf or yarmulke on duty by making uniform clothing a legal requirement. The minister has issued a guideline for local […]
(ANSA) A 10-year-old second-generation North African-Italian girl was sent home from school in the northern city of Pordenone Friday after turning up in a niqab, the Islamic garment that covers everything but female eyes, local media reported Monday. The girl returned the […]
(CBC) The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld the province’s controversial secularism law in a ruling on challenges to the law’s constitutionality released Thursday afternoon. The heavily anticipated judgment is 290 pages long and quashes a previous exception, made by Superior Court […]
(Global News) Nearly five years since the Quebec government implemented its secularism law, known as Bill 21, some of the province’s community groups say the legislation continues to have an impact on minority communities. The law bans certain public workers in positions […]
(WZTV) Rutherford County has settled a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman who was required to remove her hijab for a booking photo. Sophia Johnston was booked on a charge in August of last year that has since been dismissed. During the […]
(Detroit News) The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Monday it plans to sue the Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard’s office for the alleged “forcible removal” of a Dearborn woman’s hijab when she was detained last year in the […]
(BBC) A man accused of wearing a headband said to arouse “reasonable suspicion” he supports Hamas has appeared in court. Khaled Hajsaad, 24, who lives in Birmingham, wore the clothing at a pro-Palestine rally in central London where he was arrested by […]
(BBC) A man has been charged over wearing a green headband with writing on it, said to give “reasonable suspicion” he supports Hamas. Khaled Hajsaad, 24, from Birmingham, was accused over the presence of the Islamic Shehada on the item of clothing […]
(AP) Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders made a key concession to potential coalition partners on Monday, announcing that he’s withdrawing legislation that he proposed in 2018 that calls for a ban on mosques and the Quran. The move came a day […]
(Detroit News) A Muslim woman from Grand Rapids is suing Kent County officials over the “forcible removal” of her religious head covering for [a] booking photo and releasing it to the public after her arrest in May. The Michigan chapter of the […]
(Brussels Times) KU Leuven university has filed a complaint against student mosque International Muslim Student Association Leuven (IMSAL) after a sexist lecture was held there, Apache reported on Friday. “A woman without a headscarf will never be able to be a role […]
(Politico) The EU’s top court on Tuesday ruled that a public administration may ban staff from visibly wearing any sign which reveals philosophical or religious beliefs, in order to create a “neutral administrative environment.” “Such a rule is not discriminatory if it […]
(Mercury News) The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced a $90,000 settlement with a Muslim woman who was denied the right to wear her hijab during a jail stay last fall, as well as a new policy to prevent similar […]
(European Conservative) Teachers and their union representatives, as well as other groups, have been sounding the alarm over the rise in violence from Islamist students who have appointed themselves “moral guardians,” saying that the situation in schools has worsened since the Hamas […]
(Jurist) The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled on Thursday that a district court used the wrong standard when it determined that the Arkansas Division of Corrections (ADC) policy that requires Muslim prisoners to pray with members of the […]
(CityNews) Parents of six Muslim girls who attend Collège Citoyen, a private high school in Laval, north of Montreal, have written an open letter denouncing what their daughters went through, alleging staff at the school met with them in early September and […]
(AFP) A group of sports federations from majority-Muslim countries said on Monday that France’s move to bar its Olympic athletes from wearing the hijab would “send a message of exclusion.” The 57-member Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), based in the Saudi capital […]
(Reuters) Athletes can wear a hijab in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games athletes’ village without any restriction, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, days after France’s sports minister banned it for the host country’s athletes. The Olympic body also said it […]
(Delaware Daily Voice) A nail salon employee is recovering from a gunshot wound following a robbery, by some men in unusual disguises, the Philadelphia Police Department announced on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Two black men dressed in abayas and hijabs (that were pulled […]
(CNN) The United Nations’ human rights office has criticized the French government for banning French athletes from wearing the hijab at the Paris Olympics next year. “No one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear, or not wear,” said […]
(Middle East Eye) French athletes will not be allowed to wear veils during the Paris Olympic Games set to be held next year, the country’s sports minister announced on Sunday. Appearing as a guest on the show Sunday in Politics, airing on the […]
(Anadolu) France’s highest court on Monday ruled that the government ban on Muslim dress abaya is legal. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by three organizations against the government ban announced last month on abaya — a loose-fitting […]
(WTXF) Nail salons in Philadelphia are on edge after two of them were robbed at gunpoint by what appears to be the same suspects. And, during one of the holdups, an employee was shot. Two men, dressed in women’s Muslim clothing, robbed […]
(Anadolu) A Muslim student, who had been turned away from school for wearing a kimono, a Japanese garment, in France, has filed a complaint with the UN over being “discriminated against” due to her religious affiliation. The controversy over the French government’s […]
(Swiss Info) It will be illegal to conceal one’s face in public in Switzerland. Parliament has accepted the government’s bill implementing the so-called anti-burka initiative at [the] federal level, including a fine of up to CHF1,000 ($1,115) for those who flout the […]
(National-UAE) A new sculpture celebrating women who wear hijab will be unveiled in Birmingham next month. Renowned sculptor Luke Perry designed The Strength of the Hijab and it will be installed in the Smethwick area in October. The sculpture is believed to […]
(Brussels Times) The Neptunium swimming pool, which reopened this weekend after six years of major renovation works, will permit people to swim in a burkini (a swimsuit typically worn by Muslim women, covering their entire body) so everyone can enjoy the facilities. […]
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