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 hijabi 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 hijabs 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
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Revealing an increasing dislike of the Islamic hijab among Russians, a research group has blamed the Russian media for its failure to give adequate information on the real teachings of Islam, adding to the demonization of the religious minority.
News ID: 3323011 Publish Date : 2015/07/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A group of Buddhist monks in Myanmar is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the country.
News ID: 3317637 Publish Date : 2015/06/23
TEHRAN (IQNA)- Following footsteps of inventors of fight fire gears and sweating gym suits, a Muslim entrepreneur has fulfilled a dream of many Muslim women by developing self-cooling, water proof and wrinkle free hijab.
News ID: 3314422 Publish Date : 2015/06/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) - The suggestion of Russia's Muslim community to organize separate beaches for men and women has been supported by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, Jewish and Buddhist religions.
News ID: 3312624 Publish Date : 2015/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Attackers ripped the hijab off a Muslim woman while picking up her children after school in London.
News ID: 3312107 Publish Date : 2015/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 23rd edition of the Tehran International Hoy Quran Exhibition will include a Hijab and Ifaf section where visitors can buy Hijab-related items such as headscarves.
News ID: 3311559 Publish Date : 2015/06/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Police in London are investigating after a group of women allegedly ripped off a Muslim mother's Hijab during a "racist" attack as she went to collect her children from school.
News ID: 3311089 Publish Date : 2015/06/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A private school in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh denied entry to a Muslim girl in the classroom for wearing a hijab, with the school's administration claiming the decision was taken not to discriminate between children on the basis of dress.
News ID: 3304270 Publish Date : 2015/05/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A university in central China city of Xian has imposed a new ban on Muslim students’ hijab, ordering them to remove the religious attire inside the campus.
News ID: 3295238 Publish Date : 2015/05/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) - A decision by a Kyrgyz region to ban hijab in schools has sparked concerns among Muslims, amid reports that the ban may be applied across the country by next autumn.
News ID: 3228524 Publish Date : 2015/04/29
