TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Muslim woman wearing traditional attire was set on fire Saturday night in New York City by a man with a lighter, police said.
News ID: 3460932 Publish Date : 2016/09/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Norway hit a hairdresser with a roughly 1,000-euro fine on Monday after she was convicted of discrimination for turning away a Muslim client wearing a headscarf.
News ID: 3460931 Publish Date : 2016/09/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Female police officers in Turkey will now be able to wear a headscarf as part of their uniform, according to a new ruling published on Saturday.
News ID: 3460840 Publish Date : 2016/08/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Muslim refugee in Germany has been fired from an internship at her local town hall after she refused to remove her headscarf.
News ID: 3460822 Publish Date : 2016/08/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Canada’s police force has announced that its Muslim officers can wear hijab as part of a drive to encourage more Muslim recruitment.
News ID: 3460803 Publish Date : 2016/08/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – 643 women in Tajikistan have been placed on a police list after committing the "crime" of wearing a hijab .
News ID: 3460767 Publish Date : 2016/08/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Conservative politicians in Austria called for a ban to be imposed on Muslim women wearing full body Hijab in what many see as a mere imitation of similar Islamophobic moves in western European countries.
News ID: 3460744 Publish Date : 2016/08/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two hijab -clad Muslim-American women were at the receiving end of an alleged hate crime in Chicago on Thursday.
News ID: 3460726 Publish Date : 2016/08/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The women of the US saber squad had not been pleased by their performances in the individual competition at these 2016 Summer Games, but they broke through Saturday with Ibtihaj Muhammad becoming the first American in a hijab to step on the Olympic podium.
News ID: 3460689 Publish Date : 2016/08/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As the standard uniform of female beach volleyball players at the Summer Olympics currently underway in Brazil is the bikini, Egypt’s Doaa el-Ghobashy has raised eyebrows by becoming the first beach volleyball player to participate at the games wearing hijab (Muslim covering for women).
News ID: 3460677 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Switzerland-based International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to permanently lift the ban on Muslim women athletes wearing Islamic head scarves ( hijab ) when it issues a final decision on its head-covering policy later this month.
News ID: 3460654 Publish Date : 2016/08/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Playing the role of a Muslim student in her latest film, a young German actress has revealed that she felt a strange serenity when she put on hijab for the first time, despite of people looks at her.
News ID: 3393391 Publish Date : 2015/10/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A cross-section of Malawi Muslim community has been pushing for enactment of laws to protect hijab i Muslim women who are said to be victimized in public and work places in the southern African country.
News ID: 3375712 Publish Date : 2015/09/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Muslim women wearing hijab s or headscarves are far more likely to fall victim to hate crimes amid alarming rise in Islamophobic attacks, according to monitoring groups in the United Kingdom.
News ID: 3362292 Publish Date : 2015/09/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Rejoicing the decision to end hijab ban for basketball players, a Bosnian Muslim player has expressed happiness after receiving approval from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to don her hijab during matches.
News ID: 3353579 Publish Date : 2015/08/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A high school in the canton of Bern has forbidden a pupil from wearing the hijab in class, Swiss media reported on Monday.
News ID: 3351143 Publish Date : 2015/08/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A leading US Muslim advocacy group has filed a complaint over the Columbus Police Division’s refusal to allow women officers to wear hijab , calling the decision a discriminatory one.
News ID: 3349957 Publish Date : 2015/08/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A leading Nigerian civil rights group has condemned calls to ban hijab in northern Nigeria, warning that any such ban would offer no solution to the problem of Boko Haram extremism.
News ID: 3340434 Publish Date : 2015/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Samantha Elauf was denied a job by Abercrombie & Fitch because she wore a headscarf during job interview.
News ID: 3332184 Publish Date : 2015/07/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Nigeria's highest Muslim body, Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has declared its opposition to mounting calls to ban the hijab following a spate of suicide bombings in which the perpetrators used the head covering to conceal explosives.
News ID: 3328175 Publish Date : 2015/07/15
