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• USA: Missouri Teens Discuss Hijab

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:38 pm

  Tags: Hijab, United States

  style of Muslim dress [hijab] often puts girls in a position as cultural ambassadors for their religion in America. “If I've had a bad day, if I had a fight with my mom and I'm at the grocery store throwing things in the cart or shoving it around, if someone sees me they won't say, That girl is having a bad day,' ” Eman said.

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• UAE: Jobseekers in Niqab Face Jobseeking Challenges; Back Office Jobs Deemed More Suitable

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Hijab, United Arab Emirates

  Face veils an impediment even to Gulf jobseekers Deena Hussein (Reuters) Aysha Obeid is hoping that job prospects in a Muslim country will improve for her now that she’s decided to abandon the veil which usually covers her face. The 22-year-old says several potential employers in the United Arab Emirates have turned her down because she

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• PSA: Hijab Causes Rickets? Run for Cover!

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:12 pm

  Tags: Hijab, Health

  variety of attacks made on hijab by the ignorant never ceases to amaze me. From the ubiquitous - hijab is outdated - to now, the downright bizarre - Muslim women who wear the hijab are at risk of serious illness because they do not get enough sun. You read right. Some doctors in Britain have actually found a compelling medical

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• Canada: Muslim Women Permitted to Vote in Full Hijab

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:19 pm

  Tags: Hijab, Canada, Women

  Reading the headline, I had assumed that women in niqab would be asked to show their faces to a female poll worker before voting, but according to this article, even that is not required. They merely need to show ID and have someone vouch for them. Muslim women can remain veiled for Canadian vote (Reuters) Muslim women who are completely veiled

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• Kosovo: Students Sent Home for Wearing Hijab

  Published: September 22, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Education, Europe, Hijab

  Hijab-phobia has struck in Kosovo, where the scarf is forbidden to be worn by students. So far, three have been sent home. Supposedly there is a fear of Kosovo being perceived as being “too Islamic”. This is despite the fact that Kosovars, while nominally Muslim, are mostly secular and not particularly stringent in their practices.

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• Turkey: Proposal to Lift Restrictions on Hijab in Universities and Government Functions

  Published: September 23, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Hijab, Turkey, Women, Women S Rights

  who wear hijab in Turkey are prohibited from working in government offices, cannot appear in court, teach, attend university or practice medicine. This effectively cuts many women off from careers, education and government services. The proposal to lift these restrictions will not usher in a Taliban-state. Rather, it will allow women who

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• UK: Dentist Allegedly Refused to Treat Patient Unless She Covered

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:01 pm

  Tags: Hijab, United Kingdom

  Muslim patients into wearing hijab is a type of dawah. Doesn’t seem to be working, at least not in this case.

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• USA, North Carolina: Niqab Clad Bank Robber

  Published: October 17, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Crime Punishment, Hijab, United States

  Authorities are not even sure if the bank robber was male or female. And, of course, they cannot definitely say that he or she is Muslim. (For the record, I hope this person it NOT Muslim.) The upshot of this will be that innocent, non-thieving women will now be challenged to remove their veils when entering local banks and businesses. This

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• UK: Stylist Denied Position Over Hijab

  Published: November 10, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Hijab, United Kingdom

  she feels so strongly about hijab for herself, she would want to work at a salon that does not hold those values.

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• Canada: Again, Clash of Culture Proves Deadly

  Published: December 11, 2007, 8:54 am

  Tags: Ashley, Brampton, Grave, Hospital, Mississauga, Peel, Police, Trail, Western, Alive, Allegedly, Applewood, Aqsa, Arrived, Asked, Barely, Being, Choked, Clothes, Conflict, Credit, Crime, Culture, Cultures, Daughter, Dominiquia, Dozen, Garbutt, Generations, Heights, Hijab, Holmes Thompso

  OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanada once again has another tragedy on it's hand over Culture, in what seems to be a long standing clash of cultures in which dozens of women are murderered by family...read more

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• Canada: Father Murders Teenaged Daughter — Over Hijab

  Published: December 11, 2007, 10:29 pm

  Tags: Canada, Crime And Punishment, Hijab

  murdering his daughter over hijab has proven his failure as a Muslim, a father and a human being. Father killed daughter for not wearing hijab, her friends say (Agence France Presse) Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for

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• Canada: Reports that Murdered Girl Did Not Die Over Hijab Dispute

  Published: December 15, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: Canada, Crime And Punishment, Hijab

  Muslim girl not killed over hijab: report (Agence France Press) A Canadian Muslim girl murdered this week by her father was not killed for refusing to wear a hijab, her second family said, according to a National Post report Saturday. Lubna Tahir, at whose house 16 year old Aqsa Parvez was staying after leaving her own home in Toronto’s

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• Iran Shuts Down the Internet

  Published: December 17, 2007, 1:34 am

  Tags: Iran, Media, Police, Tehran, Action, Behavior, Cafes, Closed, Codes, Coffee Shops, Colonel Nader Sarkari, Computer, Detaining, Flouting, Games, Hardliners, Hijab, Hours, Immoral, Improper, Including, Incompatible, Internet, Islamic, Latest, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Obscene, Official

  Forget about their pathway to nukes....we should be way more worried about their joining China in the 'destroy web access' club.  Bastards."ranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops...read more

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• Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die

  Published: December 20, 2007, 7:14 pm

  Tags: Islam, Hijab, Burqa, Iran, Women, Vail

  in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die. "Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan. "I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic,

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• Canada: Woman Claims Firing for Refusal to Shake Hands with Men; Court Rules Suit Can Proceed

  Published: December 23, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Canada, Hijab

  Muslim says she lost job for shunning handshakes Ian Bailey (Toronto Globe & Mail) Chantal Hamel says her troubles at work began because, as a Muslim woman, she could not shake hands with any man who was not a member of her family. In a complaint before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, Ms. Hamel said that this is why RSVP Customer Care Centres

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