Halal hairdressing launched in Scotland

24 October 2010 With its frosted windows, CCTV cameras, and tightly monitored security entrance, it is going to be one of Aberdeen’s most secretive business enterprises. So, you could be forgiven for wondering if the shop has something to hide. Well, it does — its customers. Or rather it is the customers who want to…

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Solidarity for Hassan Filahi, attacked for not making his daughters veil

Men of the civic council, both PDL (People of Freedom party) members, of a village near Livorno publicly expressed solidarity for Hassan Filahi who was attacked by Islamic  extremists because his daughters don’t wear the veil. The two politicians claimed that freedom of religion and of cultural expression must be upheld. The attack on the…

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French muslim intellectuals criticize Obama’s hijab statement

In his June 4, 2009 Cairo speech, U.S. President Barack Obama emphasized that Muslim women in the U.S. are free to don the hijab. Obama’s statements triggered strong criticism among Arab intellectuals in France.. Reformist writer Abdelwahab Meddeb, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Paris X in Nanterre and author of The…

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A woman suffered a miscarriage after being struck by her husband bacuase she didn’t want to wear the veil

The man, a Muslim Moroccan with a regular job in Italy, has been sentenced for maltreatment, kidnapping and violence after he struck and locked up his wife in the house during the period 2004-05. Their marriage was an arranged one; at the time the woman was 16 while the man was 30. This raises doubts…

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France Moves to Ban Burqas

The French cabinet approved legislation to ban the wearing of full-face veils on 19 May 2010. The parliament of France still has to decide upon the proposal in July, and after that the law will go to the Senate in September. French president Nicolas Sarkozy said that “the burqa violates the dignity and equality of…

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