Before she leaves her Bettendorf home, Dr. Sameena Ahmed wraps a head scarf over her black hair. The act is a requirement and an expression of her Muslim faith. Julie Abdel-Fattah, who converted to ...

SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) — Students at California State University San Bernardino were challenged to wear traditional Muslim head scarves this week in a campaign that many people hoped would change ...

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Muslim women in the Heart of the Valley want state lawmakers to re-consider a policy that they say violates their freedom of religion. They are urging Alabama officials to allow Islamic headscarves in ...

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 ...

PARIS -- A presidential commission on Thursday backed a ban on Islamic head scarves in public schools -- stepping into the wrenching debate over how to preserve the country's secular identity while ...

At 19, Sandra Jawad decided she wanted to wear an Islamic headscarf. Her mother's response: a long lecture on how that could draw prejudice and limit her career options. "She told me, it's going to be ...

A woman whose Muslim religious practice requires that she cover her head in public sued the Orange County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, alleging her rights were violated when jail officials forced ...

Muslim rights groups sued the Los Angeles Police Department and its chief Thursday on behalf of a Muslim woman who alleges her religious head scarf was forcibly removed by officers at a Police ...