(CBC) The Coalition Avenir Québec government is proposing a new law that would prohibit public workers in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols such as a hijab, kippa or turban. The stated aim of the bill, titled, “An act respecting the laicity of […]
(CBC) As the Quebec government prepares to table its secularism bill, constitutional experts are raising concerns about Premier François Legault’s reported plans to pre-emptively invoke the notwithstanding clause to ensure public workers in positions of authority are banned from wearing religious symbols. Robert Leckey, dean of McGill […]
(Reuters) A campaign by New Zealand women including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to don headscarves as a sign of solidarity with Muslim women after the nation’s mosque shootings has divided opinion over whether the gesture was a help or a hindrance. Ardern […]
(CBC) Quebec public schools teachers and school principals will be prohibited from wearing religious symbols such as the hijab or kippa, under a bill likely to be tabled later this week in the provincial legislature. The long-awaited legislation from the Coaltion Avenir […]
(HuffPost) The Council on [American-Islamic] Relations called on advertisers Monday to boycott Fox News until the network axes host Jeanine Pirro. The call comes just days after Pirro’s Saturday night program, “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” was yanked by Fox after she said in […]
(Deutsche Welle) The Bavarian constitutional court on Monday rejected an appeal by an Islamic religious community to overturn a ban on judges and prosecutors wearing headscarves, saying that justice officials in particular were obliged to be neutral in questions of religion and ideology. The […]
(Local) In an early test for Geneva’s controversial new secularism law, a Muslim councillor on Tuesday chose to sit in the public gallery during a recent council meeting rather than obey the new legislation by removing her headscarf so that she could […]
(Army Times) Sgt. Cesilia Valdovinos was at a chapel at Fort Carson, Colorado, for a suicide prevention briefing on March 6 when she says her command sergeant major grabbed her by the arm, took her outside and made her remove her religious […]
(CNS) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on Fox News to fire host Jeanine Pirro — and wants her show’s advertisers boycotted until it does — after Pirro linked Rep. Ilhan Omar’s wearing of a hijab to shari’a (Islamic law), […]
(CBC) Some Muslim women in Quebec City are hoping to demystify the hijab by talking openly about their reasons for putting on the religious garment. About a dozen people gathered Saturday in Quebec City to discuss the significance of the headscarf at an […]
(AFP) Retailer Decathlon Tuesday cancelled plans to sell a sports version of the hijab Muslim headscarf in France, following an outcry. “We are effectively taking the decision to not sell this product in France for now,” Decathlon official Xavier Rivoire told the […]
(KDFW) Two Dallas Islamic groups want to change ideas about women of their faith and the hijab as its symbol. The Dallas chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America and Gain Peace are launching a six-week public outreach campaign. The main […]
(Conservative Review) Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a self-proclaimed liberal progressive, will speak alongside an extremist imam at an event hosted by the Michigan chapter of the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) next month. The Hamas-connected outfit is infamously known for being […]
(Anadolu) A Turkish-Belgian politician on Friday decried the difficulties of living as a Muslim in Europe. Being a Muslim in Europe is hard in terms of both religious belief and wearing a headscarf, Mahinur Ozdemir, 36, a Belgian-born Muslim parliamentarian, told a […]
(Anadolu) The Swedish Athletic Federation dismissed its swimming federation president due to anti-headscarf criticisms Thursday. The federation decided Ulla Gustavsson will be removed from office after a meeting. The federation said it would not discriminate against athletes, nor allow anyone to do […]
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(Local) One of the key figures behind a successful campaign to have burqas banned in the Swiss canton of Ticino now wants Muslims banned from praying in public. The move by political maverick Giorgio Ghiringhelli comes in the wake of a number […]
(BBC) Brunel University in London is hoping to encourage more Muslim women to play sport by launching a sports hijab. A 2017 study by Sports England found just 18% of Muslim women participate in regular sport, against 30% of the UK’s female […]
(AFP) Geneva residents on Sunday voted for a controversial new “secularism law,” which will among other things ban elected officials and public employees from wearing visible religious symbols. More than 55 percent of voters in the Swiss canton backed the law, final […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s new minister responsible for the status of women faced criticism Wednesday after saying she considers the hijab to be a symbol of oppression. Speaking to reporters after being named to the portfolio Tuesday, Isabelle Charest said the Muslim head […]
(Toronto Sun) It is time again for us to politely ignore World Hijab Day. This day allotted to the hijab — a regressive, patriarchal and cumbersome garment — has been observed every February 1 since 2013. The farce has spread to many […]
(CBC) Quebec’s Education Ministry is trying to find out how many people its plan to ban teachers from wearing religious symbols will affect. The ministry has asked school boards whether they have a record of how many staff wear a religious symbol […]
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(Tulsa World) A judge has dismissed a Muslim woman’s civil rights lawsuit after finding that her complaint failed to meet the legal burden to show that Tulsa County sheriff’s deputies violated her constitutional rights when they refused to let her enter the […]
(Delaware News Journal) Wilmington has agreed to pay $50,000, revise policies and train staff to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by a Muslim school whose students were asked to leave a city pool last summer because of their garb. In court records […]
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(Forbes) Newly sworn-in Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota has sold her debut memoir This Is What America Looks Like to Dey Street Books. According to the deal’s announcement in Publishers Marketplace, the book “chronicles her journey fleeing war in Somalia as a […]
(CBC) Western University’s Student Recreation Centre is offering women a segregated fitness and recreation space to ensure they feel “safe and included” accessing the gym on campus. The pilot project, which launches Tuesday, was initiated after some women shared concerns with the […]
(NY Times) As a 12-year-old refugee from Somalia adjusting to life in the Virginia suburbs, Ilhan Omar fended off bullies who stuck gum on her scarf, knocked her down stairs and jumped her when she changed clothes for gym class. Her father […]
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(CBC) A Quebec judge has failed in her bid to halt disciplinary proceedings against her after she refused to hear the case of a woman wearing a hijab. In February 2015, Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo refused to hear a routine traffic […]
(CBC) At the Québec Solidaire national council this weekend in Montreal, two camps emerged on the issue of religious symbols: one of secularism and one of inclusion. While the party already supports the banning of religious symbols worn by police officers, judges, […]
(Hill) Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the first two Muslim women elected to serve in Congress, on Friday fired back at the conservative pastor who complained that [the] floor of the Congress will “look like an Islamic republic.” “Well sir, the […]
(Hill) Conservative pastor commentator E.W. Jackson went on an anti-Islamic tirade on his radio show Wednesday, complaining that Muslims are taking over Congress. Jackson’s remarks were in response to reports that Democrats are attempting to change a rule banning headwear on the floor […]
(CBC) Fatima Ahmad has been dreaming about becoming a teacher since she was a little girl. At age six, she wrote down the aspiration in her diary, along with two other options: doctor and artist. Ultimately, she chose teaching. “I love kids, […]
(CBC) Most Quebecers are in favour of banning public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, according to a CROP poll released ahead of the first legislative session under a Coalition Avenir Québec government. But a separate survey by Vox Pop Labs, conducted following […]
(Breitbart) Six non-Muslim German girls volunteered for a “discrimination experiment” at their school to test whether they felt discriminated against for wearing an Islamic headscarf. The experiment last week saw the volunteers don the hijab as part of an assignment by their teacher […]
(Anadolu) Austria’s far-right government has introduced a draft law to the parliament to ban the headscarf in primary schools, planning to implement it without the support of the opposition. Transport Minister Norber Hofer told a news conference following the Council of Ministers […]
(Deutsche Welle) The government of Germany’s state of Lower Saxony plans to ban … judges and prosecutors from wearing religious symbols such as crosses or headscarves in the state’s courtrooms. Promoters of the measure say it is aimed at making clear that judges […]
(Billy Penn) For some businesses, maintaining both security and inclusive policy can be a delicate balance. The Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank on Girard Avenue near Oxford displays signs that ask customers to remove “all head coverings and sunglasses prior to entering the bank.” […]
(Breitbart) French conservative Republican MP Julien Aubert has put his name behind a series of migrant integration proposals that would include banning the Islamic headscarf in public institutions and make Muslims adopt French names to become citizens. The proposals come from a new […]
(LA Times) San Francisco’s De Young Museum is currently home to the first major U.S. museum exhibition exploring Muslim modest fashion. Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, “Contemporary Muslim Fashions” examines the nuanced, complex and diverse world of Muslim […]
(NY Post) It’s taken 181 years, but the House of Representatives is finally getting around to changing a rule that bans hats on the floor. The ban was enacted in 1837 by members who wanted to break from the hat-wearing tradition in […]
(BuzzFeed) Even with the outcome expected, there was a sense of history-making when it became official Tuesday night: A Muslim woman was elected to Congress for the first time. Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib, 42, won her election after running unopposed by a […]
(Washington Post) It was the second week of Islam class, and the teacher, Mansur Seddiqzai, stood in front of a roomful of Muslim teens and pointed to the sentence on the chalkboard behind him: “Islam does not belong to Germany.” He scanned […]
(Canadian Press) Members of Quebec’s most prominent women’s group are divided over whether to acknowledge prostitution as a freely chosen career and whether to support all Muslim female public servants who choose to wear a hijab at work. About 150 representatives from Quebec’s […]
(Radio France) An Algerian-born spokeswoman for France’s mainstream-right Republicans has said she has been the victim of death threats and vicious messages by radical Islamists in an article published after a man was found guilty of hate speech in tweets to her […]
(Breitbart) The Austrian government has enacted a headscarf ban in kindergartens across the country and is now considering widening the ban to include elementary schools. The conservative-populist government enacted the headscarf ban for kindergartens on Wednesday which will mean that children will […]
(Hartford Courant) A Connecticut woman has lodged a discrimination complaint against a Middletown McDonald’s, alleging she was barred from wearing a hijab at work — a violation of her “sincerely-held religious beliefs,” she said, along with federal and state civil rights protections. […]
(CBC) Quebec’s new government is planning to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab, which also covers the face. Coalition Avenir Québec […]
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