15 February 2019| 09 Juamdul Aakhir 1440| Anadolu Agency The Swedish Athletic Federation dismissed its swimming federation president due to anti-headscarf criticisms Thursday. The federation decided Ulla Gustavsson will be removed from office after a meeting. The federation said it would not ...
20 November 2018| 12 Rabi ul Awwal 1440| Anadolu Agency Democrats in the House of Representatives are attempting to change a 181-year-old rule banning the wearing of hats in the chamber in order to accommodate one of the first Muslims elected ...
14 November 2018| 06 Rabi ul Awwal 1440| Anadolu Agency Hijab is now officially part of school uniform for Muslim girls wanting to wear it, a government circular in Nigeria’s southwest Lagos State said on Tuesday, likely resting years of ...
10 October 2018|30 Muharram 1440|RT News Indonesian judoka Miftahul Jannah was banned from competing in the women’s 52kg visual impairment category at the Asian Para Games after the athlete refused to remove her hijab. The 21-year-old Muslim was disqualified from the competition ...
02 October 2018|22 Muharram 1440|EWN News Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi says the school governing body and parents body at Jeppe Girls High School have agreed to amend the code of conduct after seven Muslim girls were given disciplinary notices for ...
13 September 2018|03 Muharram 1440|Anadolu Agency A Muslim woman has been facing religious discrimination and harassment by authorities at a privately run prison in Kansas, a civil rights group said Wednesday. Washington D.C. based Muslim Advocates said Valeriece Ealom has complained that ...
10 September 2018|29 Dhul Hijjah 1439|Anadolu Agency Around 76 percent of Islamophobic attacks in Belgium in 2017 targeted Muslim women, an anti-Islamophobia association in the country revealed on Saturday. The Belgian Association for the Prevention of Islamophobia (CCIB) published a report on ...
31 July 2018|17 Dhul Qa’dha 1439|Anadolu Agency Police in Canada are searching for a woman who became the victim of a possible anti-Muslim hate crime, authorities said Monday. An 18-year-old woman who lives in Brampton city, Ontario, was at a bus stop ...
16 July 2018|03 Dhul Qa’dha 1439|RT News The mayor of a US city has apologized after officials forced a group of Muslim children out of a community pool by falsely claiming that their hijabs and niqabs did not meet safety standards. Mayor ...
112 July 2018|28 Shawaal 1439|Anadolu Agency A female Nigerian law student banned from last year’s call to bar ceremony for wearing a headscarf was finally called to the bar on Tuesday, sparking praise and elation among the nation’s Muslims. In 2017 Firdaus ...
