CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour said that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi demanded at the last minute that she wear a head scarf as a “matter of respect” during an interview ...
Rye Playland was shut down Tuesday after cops scuffled with Muslims upset that women wearing head scarves were barred from the rides, witnesses said. The ban, which is not Muslim specific, was imposed ...
BRUSSELS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The top European Union court ruled on Tuesday that public authorities in member states can prohibit employees from wearing signs of religious belief, such as an Islamic ...
PARIS (AP) -- Two Muslim girls who refused to remove their head scarves in class have been expelled from school, and two more risked the same fate Wednesday as officials began punishing those who defy ...
PARIS -- France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of ...
ISTANBUL, Feb. 25 -- One of the agents of Turkey's cultural transformation stood, 5 feet tall and less than 100 pounds, at the gate of Istanbul Bilgi University on Monday, a flying wedge of social ...
A Dec. 30 article incorrectly said that the Koran instructs women to cover their heads to hide their beauty and avoid tempting men. The Koran calls on men and women to dress and act modestly but does ...
ISTANBUL—A decadeslong taboo in Turkey was broken on Thursday when four female lawmakers from the ruling party attended Parliament wearing Islamic-style head scarves, marking the latest shift from the ...