The Institut des Ursulines school in Brussels will begin banning the headscarf starting next year. According to the principal, the school is one of the few in Brussels that still permits wearing of the headscarf and thus attracted more and more students donning the garment. The principal also said that 85% of the students in…
Last week the United Nations critiqued the French law banning the wearing of religious signs in schools as well as the overpopulation of prisons in France.
A few weeks after the controversy surrounding Muslim staff at Sainsbury’s refusing to serve alcohol, it comes to light that medical students are following suit. The British Medical Association (BMA) confirmed that a small percentage of Britain’s Muslim medical students are claiming religious offence and are thus refusing to attend lectures related to sexually transmitted…
A top anti-discrimination body has ruled that French schools were violating the rights of headscarf-wearing Muslim mothers by preventing them from taking part in their children’s outings. A group of Muslim women petitioned the French anti-discrimination authority HALDE after they were barred from accompanying school trips or extra-curricular activities. The school invoked a 2004 French…
Muslim women will have to remove their face coverings if they want to vote in upcoming elections in Quebec, a government official said Friday, reversing his earlier decision to allow the veils. Marcel Blanchet, the French-speaking province’s election chief, had been criticized by Quebec’s three main political leaders for allowing voters to wear the niqab,…
