In the past seven years, hair straightening, also called hair rebonding in Southeast Asian countries, has mainly been the preserve of glossy fashion and beauty magazines. Early this year, however, hair rebonding has made headlines in all kinds of media — thanks to a group of East Java clerics who issued an edict forbidding Muslim [...]
CAIRO — Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face veil is a religious obligation that also protects against sexual harassment. “I wear the niqab essentially to avoid harassment on the street and on public transport,” said [...]
The debate over a proposed French law banning the niqab in public buildings features some unexpected divisions On a grey Friday afternoon in Paris, Amina and her girlfriends are carrying fake designer handbags and wearing trainers sodden by the rain. Their heads are enveloped in the fur lining of their jacket hoods, and they are [...]
The sentence carried out for the first time. The victims suffered six lashings each. Four men also convicted for sex outside of marriage. Interior Minister: It is a way to bring people “to the right path.” Model punished for drinking beer awaits sentence. Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews / Agencies) – Malaysian authorities have flogged three women [...]
What is it with middle-class Englishwomen and the headscarf? Why do so many ladies from the most sexually-liberated and educated society in history just crave the feel of fabric against their hair? I was struck by this thought when watching Jihad Jenny Tonge being interviewed by Lauren Booth on Iran’s Press TV – the Liberal [...]
ROME – A family law ”in harmony with the founding principles and the spirit of Islam”, for which any ‘Ijitihad’ (interpretation of the Koran) was ”more than welcome”. And it the end it proved how ”Muslim identity and universal human rights can coexist”. It is the Moudawana which in 2004 replaced Morocco’s old and patriarchal [...]
The former French justice minister, Rachida Dati, has condemned the wearing of the burka, saying that it “does not correspond” to European values. Ms Dati, the first person of North African descent to serve in the French cabinet, is in the UK to visit the Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s Blackburn constituency. In a rare interview, [...]
Tower Hamlets council has been accused of trying to force through a controversial sculpture against the wishes of locals It is synonymous with curry and trendy bars, nightclubs and art venues. Now a plan to mark the entry points to London‘s cosmopolitan Brick Lane with giant arches in the shape of headscarves or hijabs has been [...]
Many of those who have not read the Koran (or who have read but misconstrued it) regard the word of God as conveyed to the Prophet Muhammad between 610-632 A.D. as sanctioning such practices as the mandatory wearing of the chador by women, as well as covering the face entirely, in the fashion dictated by [...]
MSA correspondant Sarah Camiscoli reports from the realm of We’re So Over Sex and Vaginas theatrical productions. Falling on the Monday after a weekend of a whole lot of Vagina talk, the NYC premiere of the Hijabi Monologues brought in a full house of students and friends intrigued by the irony and progressiveness of a production whose title replaces [...]
