(Canadian Press) A diverse crowd of protesters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to march against racism and denounce the newly elected Coalition Avenir Quebec government. Muslim families pushing strollers, Indigenous community leaders, masked anti-capitalist activists and members of some 50 community […]
(Religion News) Larycia Hawkins never questioned what she should do. It was days after the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed at a center for people with developmental disabilities. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump seized upon the religion of the […]
(Canadian Press) A Montreal woman who was scolded by a judge for wearing a hijab in court had her fundamental rights violated, Quebec’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday. The court decided unanimously that citizens who wear religious attire cannot be denied access to justice. The ruling stems from a […]
(CBC) Newcomers to Quebec and their advocates say the premier-designate is taking the wrong approach to integrating immigrants, after François Legault said he will proceed next year with Coalition Avenir Québec’s plan to cut immigration levels by 20 per cent. At his first news conference as incoming premier, Legault confirmed […]
(CBC) Quebec’s premier-designate says he is prepared to invoke the notwithstanding clause to enforce a prohibition on any public employee from wearing a religious symbol such as a hijab or kippa in the workplace. François Legault would also move swiftly to reduce […]
(Ventura County Star) Settlement terms have been reached in a federal lawsuit against the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office concerning a Muslim woman whose head scarf was removed while she was in custody, officials announced Monday. The civil rights lawsuit concerns Newbury Park resident Jennifer Hyatt, […]
(MPR) When President Trump first announced restrictions on travelers from Muslim countries, Fardousa Jama attended a rally at a Mankato coffee shop. She was there with other community activists who were trying to come up with a way to respond to the […]
(AP) The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as drab and restrictive to the Western eye. But a new exhibition in San Francisco shows that the covering used by some […]
(AP) Police in Austria are on the lookout for a tall man who robbed a bank disguised with a latex mask, glasses, bright red lipstick and an Islamic-style headscarf. Vienna police said Wednesday the suspect robbed a bank in Linz at the […]
(Anadolu) The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday convicted Belgian authorities for violating the EU Convention on Human Rights by excluding a Muslim woman from a courtroom for refusing to remove her headscarf. In 2007, the applicant, referred to by the […]
(Pew) A Danish law that took effect in August makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear face-covering veils — such as burqas or niqabs — in public. Austria, Belgium and France, as well as parts of Italy and Spain, have enacted […]
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(Anadolu) Austrians have reacted to a plan by the education minister to expand the headscarf ban for students and teachers to secondary schools. Education Minister Heinz Fassmann said on Monday that the issue should be discussed throughout the country, especially in the […]
(Kansas City Star) A civil rights group said Wednesday that a Muslim woman is facing religious discrimination at a privately run prison in Leavenworth. The prisoner, Valeriece Ealom, has complained that staff at the Leavenworth Detention Center have repeatedly disparaged her wearing […]
(Anadolu) Expanding the range of headscarf bans for students and teachers in secondary school should be discussed throughout the country, especially in parliament, Austria’s education minister said on Monday. Speaking at Austrian state television ORF on a draft law to ban Muslim […]
(Swiss Info) The Federal Court says that an initiative by the conservative right Swiss People’s Party to ban head coverings in schools in the southern canton of Valais is invalid. It confirms the decision taken by the Valais parliament. The People’s Party […]
(IPT) In a year in which Muslim political candidates are breaking new ground or falling just short, it’s not surprising to see politics dominate the country’s largest annual gathering of Muslim Americans. But the political sessions at the annual Islamic Society of […]
(Radio Iowa) An eastern Iowa non-profit group is offering sports hijabs to help Muslim girls stay active. Starting this fall, the organization Girls On The Run will supply the athletic versions of the Muslim headscarf to girls who request them. Executive director […]
(Brussels Times) The hijab — the headscarf worn by Muslim women as the minimum form of coverage — should be the subject of a ban in schools under the next legislature, according to federal secretary of state Zuhal Demir. “The headscarf has […]
(Deutsche Welle) A girl below the age of 18 wearing a headscarf? The human rights organization “Terre des Femmes” believes it is morally wrong and is demanding that the German government ban headscarves for girls in schools and daycare centres. On Thursday, […]
(Delaware News Journal) A Muslim school in Wilmington is suing the city, the mayor and the parks director following incidents in which students were asked to exit a public pool because they were wearing cotton. The Darul Amaanah Academy, its principal and […]
(Montreal Gazette) Jean-François Lisée says he would be in favour of a plan to postpone a province-wide elementary school exam next year because it interferes with a Muslim holiday. The PQ leader weighed in Wednesday on a recent spat between a Montreal […]
(Deutsche Welle) A new poll published on Thursday by Playboy Germany shows that while national hostility to minority sexualities may have taken a nosedive over the years, hostility to Islam remains depressingly stagnant. According to the survey, which polled over 1,000 men […]
(Anadolu) Betul Baslik, a Turkish-origin social services and pedagogy graduate, has been denied an internship by a Belgian retirement home due to her headscarf. Born and raised in Belgium, Baslik told Anadolu Agency that she had recently been accepted to pursue her […]
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(Breitbart) A poll in Austria shows that less than half of Austrians are willing to tolerate a cityscape dominated by women wearing headscarves while a vast majority also condemn migrants who refuse to integrate. The new poll shows that only 42 percent […]
(CBC) A husband-and-wife team are hosting a discussion Saturday aimed at exploring how gender shapes their experience as Muslims. The discussion, titled Being Muslim: The Gendered Experience, is part of the Vancouver Biennale — a bi-annual city-wide public art exhibition. The discussion will be a safe space for interested people to share […]
(Delaware News Journal) Muslim Advocates, a national legal advocacy organization, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Wilmington demanding an investigation into alleged discrimination at a public pool, training for staff and actions “to remedy the harm to the community.” The letter, sent Thursday, comes […]
(Delaware News Journal) A Wilmington pool manager, under fire for asking children in an Arabic summer camp to exit the pool for wearing cotton, disputed on Monday accusations that her actions were discriminatory. Glenda Pinkett, a seasonal city employee, acknowledged there is no […]
(Delaware News Journal) After several children in an Arabic summer camp were asked to leave a public pool, ostensibly for wearing cotton while swimming, Wilmington officials will review the city’s pool rules and their enforcement. A meeting planned for Monday follows an apology from […]
(Delaware News Journal) It’s the fourth year Tahsiyn A. Ismaa’eel has taken children, participants in her summer Arabic enrichment program, to the Foster Brown public pool in Wilmington. But this year marked the first time some of her elementary schoolers were asked […]
(Ventura County Star) In a response filed Wednesday to a federal lawsuit, the County of Ventura said a local Muslim woman’s head-covering was “gently and respectfully” removed for security reasons while she was in jail custody and denied her allegations it was stripped from her. Attorneys for the county […]
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(CBC) Hamilton’s Catholic school board is changing the wording of its summer school dress code after years of saying no “head scarves” on its printed form. Duraid Al-Jailawi says his wife noticed the wording Wednesday when the form was handed to her […]
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