In Lyon, BlaBlaCar driver refuses ride for veiled young woman

The newspaper Le Progres reported the case of Djema Ouada, who paid for a ride to Grau-du-Rois using BlaBlaCar. But after seeing the young women wearing a veil, the driver refused to give her a ride. “For Djema Ouada, a young hairdresser, looking for work and living in Grigny, holiday traffic forced her to take

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French Muslim in Long Skirt returns to school

A Muslim student who was denied entry to her French school last month for wearinga full-length skirt has returned to classes in a similar outfit after her story sparked global outrage.   “I did nothing wrong, I’m respecting the law as I always take off my headscarf before I enter the school; so there is

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France under pressure to clarify rules about wearing long skirts and Muslim robes to school

The French government is under growing pressure to make a clear ruling on whether schoolgirls can wear long skirts in state schools.   Around 150 Muslim girls have been sent home in the last 18 months for turning up in long skirts or robes which were judged by their head-teachers to break the 11-year-old law

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Florida girl attacked after wearing hijab to school

February 4, 2014   Teen says she has been bullied in school HAINES CITY, Fla. —A Florida girl said she has been verbally and physically assaulted because she wears a hijab, or head scarf, to school. Zahrah Habibulla, 14, said she didn’t have problems at school with other children until she started wearing her hijab

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Comic for tolerance

Febraury 2, 2014   Soufeina Hamed (24) is from Berlin, studying Intercultural Psychology at the University of Osnabrück. She decided to wear a headscarf. Having observed and experienced marginalization and prejudices against Muslim females, Soufeina begun to draw comics about daily life of Muslims and non-Muslims in German society. The comics confront stereotype patterns of

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