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By Serife Cetin BRUSSELS (AA): A court in Belgium ruled in favor of a schoolgirl and against the headscarf ban in the Flemish Region of the country. The school which the student had filed a case against is affiliated to a public body named GO! Education of Flemish Community. The body had decided to […]

6th Jul 2019

Nigerian school forces Muslim girls remove headscarves

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s headscarf crisis festered Friday after footage emerged online of school guards and teachers ordering Muslim girls to remove their headscarves before entering a school compound in the southwestern town of Ibadan. The video sparked outrage on social media as Nigerians took sides mostly along religious lines over […]

16th Apr 2019

Germany: Muslim woman wearing headscarf attacked in Berlin

BERLIN (AA) – A suspected far-right extremist verbally and physically assaulted a Muslim woman at a Berlin metro station, police said on Monday. The incident was the latest in a string of xenophobic attacks in the German capital in recent months targeting people of foreign appearance, including Muslim women with headscarf or Jews wearing a […]

13th Apr 2019

US: Muslim female student attacked at high school

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): A New Jersey high school student was arrested this week after pulling off a Muslim student’s hijab during a fight, according to the Middlesex County’s prosecutor’s office. The student got into an altercation with the other student over a seat in one of East Brunswick High School’s common areas, […]

2nd Mar 2019

Belgium students mock Islam dressed as suicide bombers

By Serife Cetin BRUSSELS (AA): A group of high school students here mocked Islam when they wore headscarves and suicide belts while imitating the movement of Islamic prayer. Senior students traditionally celebrate graduation ceremonies 100 days before the end of school year, Mahinur Ozdemir, an independent member of parliament from Brussels Regional Parliament, told […]

5th Oct 2018

Canada: Appeal Court rules in favour of Muslim woman on hijab ban in court

By Seyit Aydogan TORONTO (AA): A top court in Canada’s Quebec province has ruled in favor of a woman after a judge told her Muslim headscarf violated the rules of courtroom modesty. On February 2015, Rania El-Alloul was told by provincial court’s judge that she would have to remove her headscarf in order to […]

19th Sep 2018

European rights court slams Belgium on headscarf issue

By Hajer M’tiri PARIS (AA): 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 EU court as “Mrs Lachiri”, was attending a […]

11th Aug 2018

US: Gap creates stir with ad featuring hijab

By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON (AA): U.S. clothing retailer Gap’s advertising campaign for its back to school fashion line has drawn widespread criticism for including a girl wearing hijab. The advertisement promotes its children’s line of clothing and has been spread through posters as well as social media. On YouTube, the company released a 15-second […]

18th Jul 2018

Germany: Video shows Islamophobic shooting at Muslim woman

By Ayhan Simsek BERLIN (AA): An assailant entered a cafe and fired six shots at a Muslim female employee in southern Germany, in a suspected Islamophobic attack. A dramatic video footage released on Tuesday captured the moment when the man entered the cafe and immediately started shooting at the employee who was wearing a […]

29th Jun 2018

France: 10 charged over anti-Muslim terror plot

By Hajer M’tiri PARIS (AA): French prosecutors have charged 10 far-right extremists with criminal terrorist conspiracy over a terrorist plot to attack Muslims, who they called “enemy within” French media reported on Thursday. Among the nine men and one woman arrested in raids across France on Saturday is a 65-year-old retired police officer, believed […]

22nd Jun 2018

Nigeria: Hijab OK’d for Muslim barred from call to bar

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): A female law student barred from the country’s call to bar last year for wearing the Muslim head covering (hijab) has been asked to attend the ceremony billed for later this year. Firdaus Amasa was denied access to the call to bar ceremony in the capital Abuja for […]

28th Apr 2018

Kenya: Muslims at Kenya Medical college barred for wearing hijab

By Andrew Wasike and Magdalene Mukami NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): Female Muslim students at the Kenya Medical Training College in Mwingi town were denied entry Friday for wearing the hijab. Several female Muslim students at the Kenya Medical Training College in Mwingi, have accused the school’s management of discrimination, after they were barred from accessing […]

4th Mar 2018

Germany: Anti-Muslim hate crime surges in Germany

By Ayhan Simsek BERLIN (AA): There were 950 attacks reportedly on Muslims and mosques in Germany in 2017, according to new government figures. At least 33 Muslims were injured in the attacks, which included assaults against Muslim women wearing headscarves and attacks against mosques and other Muslim institutions, the Interior Ministry said in its […]

1st Feb 2018

Nigeria: Nigerian Muslim women decry discrimination

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Nigerian Muslim women on Wednesday called for banning all discriminations against their religious head-covering (Hijab). “Al-Mu’minaat (an organization of Muslim women in Nigeria) is seeking that legislations be made to specifically criminalize discrimination, harassment, molestation and persecution of Muslim girls and ladies in the religious gear, the Hijab,” […]

20th Dec 2017

Nigerian parliament probes lawyer’s hijab ban case

By Rafiu Ajakaye LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Nigeria’s parliament on Tuesday launched a probe into the refusal by the country’s law school to call a Muslim woman to the bar because she wore a head covering under her wig on religious grounds. The House of Representatives unanimously adopted a motion calling for a probe of […]

29th Nov 2017

Canadian students offering hijab kits to victims of Islamophobic attacks

By Barry Ellsworth TRENTON, Canada (AA): A Canadian university has launched a program to provide replacement hijab kits to women who are attacked and have their head coverings ripped off, the groups told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. The program is a joint effort by the student union of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, […]

21st Nov 2017

Netherlands allows police officers to wear headscarves in certain positions

By Abdullah Asiran UTRECHT, Netherlands (AA): A new ruling in the Netherlands will allow policewomen serving in certain positions to wear headscarves. The Human Rights Council ruling came Monday over a complaint by Sarah Izat, 26, a police officer who wore a headscarf, after she was dismissed over violating the dress code. The Dutch […]

11th May 2017

US: NYC teacher fired after ripping off 8-year-old’s hijab

NEW YORK (AA): A city teacher lost his job last week after forcibly removing the Islamic headcover, or hijab, from one of his students in class, according to media reports. Oghenetega Edah, 31, who worked as a substitute teacher at Bennington School, PS 76 in the Bronx, told 8-year-old Safa Alzockary to remove her hijab […]

4th Apr 2017

Swedish Ombudsman decides in favor of headscarf

By Atila Altuntas STOCKHOLM (AA): The Equality Ombudsman (DO) of Sweden decided on Monday that a Muslim woman was subjected to discrimination on the grounds of religion in the eastern city of Uppsala. According to the press release, the Ombudsman filed an 8,000 euro indemnity case against the translation company, which cancelled the interview […]

23rd Feb 2017

Turkey: Hijab now permitted in Turkish army

By Sarp Ozer ANKARA (AA & Agencies): Female members of Turkey’s armed forces will be able to wear headscarves for first time, under a Turkish Defense Ministry policy announced Wednesday. According to new ministry regulations, female soldiers can wear headscarves underneath their caps or berets so long as they are the same color as […]

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