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St. Paul police now allow employees to wear hijab

researcher10 years ago02 mins

March 1, 2014 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The St. Paul Police Department is now allowing employees to wear a police-issued hijab headscarf, according to an announcement Saturday. St. Paul Police Chief Thomas Smith said he knows of only one other department in Washington, D.C., that allows the hijab in the United States, according…

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ACLU to sue Twin Cities charter school that caters to Muslims

researcher15 years ago15 years ago02 mins

An ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) lawsuit against the Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy claims that the charter school has crossed the line that separates church and state. TiZA, as the school is known, serves mostly immigrant children, many of them from Muslim countries. The ACLU claims that classroom time is lost as the school sets…

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