A Muslim woman whose small-claims court case was dismissed after she refused to remove her veil sued the judge Wednesday, saying her religious and civil rights were violated. Ginnnah Muhammad, 42, of Detroit, says in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit that Judge Paul Paruk’s request to remove her veil – and…
A Muslim woman was spat at and racially abused in front of her children as they travelled on a train after an event in memory of victims of the 7/7 bombings. Michelle Idrees, from Luton, had on a burkha when she was targeted by a father and his two sons.
MUNICH – Prof. Dr. h. c. Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde, legal philosopher and retired Constitutional Court Justice, regards the case of the Muslim teacher’s headscarf as a part of integration. Each headscarf-wearing Muslim woman who pursues her profession independently and self-reliantly is a counterargument to the idea that Islam suppresses women.
GENEVA – A majority of Swiss people would support a Muslim woman’s right to wear a headscarf at her workplace, according to an opinion poll on the integration of Islam in Switzerland published on Sunday. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they felt a recent move by a supermarket chain to expressly allow women in…
Fatima Yaakoub, 24 years old, born in Morocco, living in the Netherlands since she was 12, says she wants nothing more than to fit in. She works hard, cleaning offices in the early mornings, going to college during the day, taking English classes on weekends-trying to get ahead, trying to do what is expected of…
