Doing It Quietly The Syrian Way
While attention was being focused on the efforts of European countries to ban full-face veils, Syria, a Middle East country no less, and officially the Syrian Arab Republic, quietly went about its ban on burqas and nijabs, first in schools, then in universities. The hijab (headscarf) is not banned.
School Teachers Surprised [...]
The Guilty Plea
On Dec 10, 2007 Muhammad Parvez called the police to say that he had strangled his daughter. Recently Mhanmmad Parvez and his youngest son Waqas Parvez pleaded guilty to the murder of his youngest daughter Aqsa Parvez, who was 16 at the time of her death. Aqsa Parvez was a high-school student in Mississauga, Ontario, [...]
Women Support Ban On Gender Mixing
Just when it seems that the anti-sex segregation lobby is gaining momentum in Saudi Arabia, along came a group of Saudi women declaring their support for the existing law. What prompted this action, and why did they do it?
Open Letter
Noor Al-Islam published an open letter on its website. This open letter is [...]
Judge Didn’t Know Hijab Is A Religious Garment
What would a Muslim woman do if someone were to force her to remove her hijab? Sue that person? Tell it to a judge? But what if it is the judge himself who is forcing a Muslim woman to remove her hijab? Can a judge be sued? Is there [...]
Bangladesh High Court Orders Education Ministry Officials To Stop Harassment Of Women
The Muslim veil (hijab) is in the news again. In a landmark ruling earlier this month, the High Court in Bangladesh ruled that wearing a veil by Muslim women holding public offices “is a personal choice”. In other words, the High Court is saying that no Muslim [...]
How true the old saying: He who pays the piper calls the tune. In blogosphere, there are several reports (from the same source – therealitycheck.org) that a new hospital in Bolivia, funded by Iran, has bowed to the demands of the Iranians that all female nurses there must wear the hijab as part of their uniform.
It [...]
The Constitutional Court of Kuwait has recently dismissed a case brought by a Kuwaiti man, Hamad al Nashi, to have 2 female MPs dismissed from Parliament for violating the election law. MPs Aseel al Awadhi and Rola Dashti did not wear the hijab in Parliamentary sessions. Citing the election law, Hamad al Nashi told the court: [...]
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