Earlier this month my class mates and I were given an assignment on interfaith awareness between Muslims and Christians. Over the past decade the two communities have not had very warm relations especially since after 9/11. My friends and I felt nervous about this task as we had never interacted with member of the Christian [...]
Ayatollah condemns Islamic hijab ban in Azerbaijan Tehran Times Political Desk QOM – Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani has sent a message to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, strongly denouncing a ban on Islamic dress code recently imposed in Azerbaijan as a move against Islam and the human rights laws. “Reportedly, Azerbaijan’s education minister has ordered the [...]
Abercrombie and Fitch proudly cites its commitment to diversity in the workforce. Hani Khan, a Muslim sales clerk found out that this commitment has its limits. The Contra costa Times reports as follows on the firing of the Muslim sales clerk from hollister’s, a subsidiary of Abercrombie and Fitch. “Except, last month, at Hollister, the [...]
The French parliament is to vote on a proposal to ban the face covering known as the niqab or burqa. BBC Wales reporter SELMA CHALABI looks at what is happening in France and finds out how Muslims in Wales are responding. These days it is quite common to see women walking around the part of [...]
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 [...]
Why hijab-wearing Muslim women have a real affinity for hard rock God gave rock’n’roll to you! So US rock band Kiss chanted in the early 90s, a cover of the original song by British group Argent. My relationship with this “divine” gift started early. At 12, I riffled through my brother’s vinyl collection and emerged [...]
Don’t think that Hanan Turk will keep her Hijab on? Well, think again, because she’s not willing to take it off, not even for movie role. She says the Hijab could be turned into something positive in movies. She continues to say that wearing the Hijab for her is something normal, and if a person [...]
Conservative leader David Cameron had to backtrack over a joke he made in an interview with popular gay magazine Attitude. In an hour long interview with the Tory leader, tipped to become Britain’s next Prime Minister, Cameron was questioned about being inclusive of minority groups. Talking about the appearance of Muslim peer Sayeeda Warsi on [...]
Nadia Hassan is a frequent flyer. The forty-year-old MBA, who was born in Michigan, had never been hassled — until Tuesday morning, January 5. She was traveling with her five-year-old daughter and went to Dulles International to board a plane for Los Angeles. She was in line to go through security. “Before I could even [...]
Boston I knew I was in trouble the moment I sat down. I’d just taken a seat next to an elderly Asian woman on the D-line train, on my way to a college class last year. She immediately stiffened. I began reading a book. She started twitching and looking around the train. We passed the [...]
