Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi-American, was brutally attacked in her home in El Cajon¸ California, on March 21. She was found unconscious by her eldest daughter, with a note placed by her beaten ...

Two Muslim women in Portugal who wear the hijab have spoken out against a ban on the burka, saying that it threatens women’s ...

Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Robert Jenrick of racism for wanting to ban the burka – a strange ...

Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), stated that Muslim women should be allowed to access health services while wearing the hijab, but opposed the wearing of ...

More than 20 countries already ban or restrict burqas and niqabs (full-body and face coverings) worn by some Muslim women in ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands-- The Netherlands has approved a limited ban on "face-covering clothing" in public places, including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab but not the hijab, which ...

The Taliban's religious police have erected banners in Kabul that order women to wear the Islamic hijab. The posters show a woman wearing an all-encompassing burqa and a woman wearing the black chador ...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered all women to cover their faces, the latest in a series of restrictions that have drawn criticism from many Afghans and the international community. The ...

Baptized but lost the faith? Want to rid yourself of that pesky ‘elect’ feeling? Edwin Kagan, director of American Atheists, will de-baptize you with his handy blow dryer. Or if you do believe in God, ...

In Islamic tradition, one of the few symbols that have often been misunderstood is the hijab. To many outside the faith, the sight of a Muslim woman covering her hair raises certain questions. But to ...

BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fed up with Western stereotypes pegging Muslim women as "submissive" and judging them by their religious clothing, a feminist author collected essays from 17 ...

Turbans and the hijab will be allowed to be worn by Sikh and Muslim members of the Gardaí (Irish police) under new rules announced by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris. The incorporation of certain items ...