TEHRAN (IQNA) – Sameena Zahoor has been wearing a hijab since she was in college studying to be a doctor and she is aware that non-Muslims often have questions — and misconceptions — about the headscarf commonly worn by Muslim women in the US.
News ID: 3465682 Publish Date : 2018/04/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A $5,000 reward is being offered to help catch the attacker who stabbed a Muslim woman in Houston, US state of Texas, during a hate-filled attack.
News ID: 3465497 Publish Date : 2018/04/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei underlined the importance of Hijab for Muslim women.
News ID: 3465352 Publish Date : 2018/03/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US city of New York has agreed to pay $180,000 to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have mug shots taken, officials said Wednesday.
News ID: 3465305 Publish Date : 2018/03/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Quebec Court judge who refused to hear the case of a woman unless she removed her hijab in the courtroom has lost her latest bid to try to quash a disciplinary investigation into her conduct.
News ID: 3465288 Publish Date : 2018/02/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in the Indonesian province of Aceh have ordered Muslim flight attendants to wear headscarves when flying into the region, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
News ID: 3465095 Publish Date : 2018/01/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A primary school that controversially banned pupils from wearing hijab s appears to have backed down after the chair of governors announced his resignation following complaints from parents.
News ID: 3464991 Publish Date : 2018/01/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Toronto police are investigating an attack on an 11-year-old girl whose hijab was repeatedly cut on her way to school, heightening pressure on Canadian governments to take further action against attacks on Muslims.
News ID: 3464929 Publish Date : 2018/01/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nancy Allen, a librarian, published author, and a member of a church choir from Conway, US state of Arkansas, has been wearing hijab for almost two years to support Muslim women and counter hateful rhetoric targeting the religious minority.
News ID: 3464847 Publish Date : 2018/01/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Recent remarks by Austria's newly appointed Education Minister Heinz Fassmann against the headscarf have raised concerns for Muslims living in the country.
News ID: 3464792 Publish Date : 2017/12/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria's apex Muslim body on Tuesday threatened the country's law school with nationwide protests for barring a Muslim woman from a call to the bar ceremony because she wore a hijab .
News ID: 3464727 Publish Date : 2017/12/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – “Muslim people here to stay” rang out in front of the McDonald's on Seven Sisters Road in north London on Saturday.
News ID: 3464589 Publish Date : 2017/12/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A leading British Muslim group has voiced concerns over school inspecting authority, Ofsted, plans to question young Muslim girls on hijab , saying the proposal challenges the British values of religious freedom.
News ID: 3464470 Publish Date : 2017/11/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Indian social worker was denied a job at an orphanage based in the Indian capital of New Delhi because her recruiter felt that her hijab made her look "like a Muslim lady".
News ID: 3464456 Publish Date : 2017/11/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Virginia school district has placed a teacher on leave for removing a student’s hijab from her head.
News ID: 3464453 Publish Date : 2017/11/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In a milestone for professional basketball, the long-standing ban on player headgear, including the hijab , turbans and yarmulkes, has been officially lifted.
News ID: 3464060 Publish Date : 2017/10/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament, was declared elected as Singapore's first woman president on Wednesday, after the returning officer announced she was the sole candidate to qualify for the contest.
News ID: 3463901 Publish Date : 2017/09/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – French businesswoman and mother Samira Amarir struggled to find toys which could help impart her Islamic faith to her young daughter, so she invented her own.
News ID: 3463854 Publish Date : 2017/09/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims in Manitoba, Canada, are organizing several events to counter hate and promote peace and understanding instead.
News ID: 3463759 Publish Date : 2017/08/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A US Muslim woman has won $85,000 in damages from the City of Long Beach after her religious head scarf was forcibly removed by a police officer in 2015, according to a release from the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which filed the federal lawsuit on her behalf.
News ID: 3463613 Publish Date : 2017/08/12
