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French court rules in favor of Muslim student forced to remove Hijab

A French court ruled in favour of a Muslim student who filed a lawsuit after being expelled from a training centre in Paris for wearing the hijab

Aqsa Imam condemns Israeli threats to the

The Aqsa Mosque Imam, Sheikh Yusuf Abu Sneinah condemned, during the Friday sermon, Zionists threats against the "Freedom Flotilla" calling for an end to the unjust siege of the Gaza

Beyond the burqa

IN MUSLIM countries, a conservative head-covering does not always mean being conservative in other ways.

Half of Europeans oppose headscarf, support crucifix in classrooms

Nowadays, racists and bigots usually come up with justifications to cover up their racism and bigotry, to give cover to it and to package it in something nicer. Bans on

Spanish school expels girl for wearing hijab

Europe continues to be embroiled with the veil controversy. This time it was Spain that sparked outrage from Muslim and independent human rights activists after a 16-year-old girl was expelled

MB MP criticizes Interior Ministry for spying on teachers

MP Ibrahim Ouf, of the Brotherhood Parliamentary bloc, criticized the flagrant security intervention in the education departments' affairs. He claimed that this intervention would negatively alter the education process which

Israeli Arabs urged to try ‘reverse discrimination’ against Jews

A leading Arab human-rights lawyer in Israel has suggested a novel and provocative approach to dealing with routine discrimination practised by Jews against Israel’s Arab minority: Arabs should start discriminating

Confessions of a hijabi

I watched the Bollywood film My Name is Khan the other day. The brilliant depiction of an autistic person by India’s leading actor Shah Rukh Khan and director Karan Johar’s

Open Letter to Islamophobe Dutch MP Geert Wilders

Ok, you don’t like Muslims. Yet they are not going to go away. Your case is analogous to that of the man whose garden was infested by ladybirds. They were

French mayor: Halal restaurant is discrimination

A French council has filed a complaint against a fast food chain that uses only halal meat in its burgers.