April 17, 2006 -

‘Hip’ Hijab Takes On Dutch Prejudices

Euro-Islam18 years ago09 mins

SON EN BREUGEL, THE NETHERLANDS – In 1999, while seeking a graduate project idea at the Design Academy of Eindhoven, Cindy van den Bremen found a problem-solving opportunity. The Dutch Commission of Equal Treatment had recently ruled that high schools could prohibit Muslim girls from wearing head coverings in gym class. Girls were advised to…

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Tv Skewing Americans’ View Of Peaceful Islam, Muslim Leaders Say

Euro-Islam18 years ago15 years ago09 mins

DETROIT – It was an image of Islam that might have startled many Americans: a young Muslim woman wearing a traditional head scarf standing in the center of a chandeliered banquet hall singing the U.S. national anthem. “It saddens me,” Denise Hazime, a 25-year-old, Muslim American law student remarked after watching the woman sing to…

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