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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67% of the Spanish citizens see as unacceptable to expel a student for wearing the hijab

November 5, 2013   67 percent of Spanish citizens see as unacceptable  to expel a student from class for wearing the headscarf or the ‘ hijab ‘, according to the preliminary results of the ‘2012 Survey on intercultural local social coexistence ‘ conducted by Obra Social ‘La Caixa’.   Europa Press: http://www.europapress.es/epsocial/noticia-67-espanoles-ve-inaceptable-expulse-alumna-llevar-velo-islamico-encuesta-20131105145712.html

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“I’ll tell you why I chose Islam” by Anna Assumma

October 30, 2013   By Anna Assumma An Italian girl like many others. But she converts to Islam and decides to veil herself from head to foot. Hers is a choice that disturbs everyone: except her. She’s a girl like any other, or perhaps she was a little brighter than others. She studied humanistic scientific…

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Madonna: Another Conversion this time to Islam?

Much has been made of her in recent times, both for the chain garment that is dropping in various parts of the world, and also for a recent story in an American magazine about her beginnings in New York and her terrible brush with violence upon her arrival.   Today more talk about Madonna, the…

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Mass. bar examiners to review religious wear rules

Test taker who had authorization interrupted due to her hijab Iman Abdulrazzak, an observant Muslim, realized at the last minute that she needed special permission to wear her headscarf while taking the Massachusetts bar exam. She scrambled to fax her request for an exemption to the ban on hats and other headwear. She called the…

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