The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Muslim woman in Georgia who was arrested in 2008 when she refused to remove her head scarf while entering the Douglasville Municipal Court to accompany her nephew to a traffic hearing. The woman, Lisa Valentine, verbally protested the order and was briefly…
When Switzerland recently voted to ban the construction of minaret towers at mosques, some observers interpreted it as an expression of European xenophobia that would never find a home in multicultural America. That isn’t entirely the case. In hundreds of communities across the U.S. where Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and other religious minorities have sought to…
Muslim civil rights group had challenged ban on religious attire in courtrooms WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded a decision by the Judicial Council of Georgia to allow religious attire such as Islamic headscarves, or hijab, in that state’s courtrooms.
Days after police arrested a Muslim woman for refusing to remove her religious headscarf before attending a hearing, city court workers and a municipal judge have been ordered to undergo sensitivity training. The judge in an Atlanta, Georgia suburb ordered Lisa Valentine to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court – she was…
Islam Online examines the availability of halal, or Islamically permissible foods on various US university and college campuses. At Stanford University, halal food is widely available on several places of the campus – though it is not already made, but must be done so on-demand. At Harvard University, already-made halal meals on campus have been…
