Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some Americans believe that the Islamic faith is oppressive for women. In the West, particularly in France, the hijab, or ...

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 ...

The Military College of South Carolina contemplates a hijab exception. Citadel freshman cadets stand in formation during the oath ceremony on Aug. 19, 2013 in Charleston, South Carolina. The Citadel ...

When non-Muslim women across New Zealand draped scarves on their heads last month to show their solidarity with Muslims a week after the horrific massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, it was ...

The Citadel military college has decided a newly accepted Muslim student cannot wear her traditional Muslim headscarf if she enrolls. The South Carolina school announced Tuesday that Commandant of ...

The state school's president cites the need for uniformity. — -- The Citadel military college in South Carolina today denied a request from an incoming Muslim student to wear a traditional ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Caitlin Killian, Drew University (THE CONVERSATION) Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the ...

INKSTER, Mich. — When Raghdaa Ali attempted to walk into a cash advance store one day last summer to get a money order, an employee pointed to the headscarf that she wore and said, "You need to take ...

A New Mexico woman is claiming Planet Fitness isn’t always ‘judgment free.’ The national budget-friendly gym chain promises members an atmosphere free of “gymtimidation.” But Tarainia McDaniel, a ...

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