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In the Canadian province of Quebec, “the separatist Parti Quebecois [wants] to make the provincial government religion-neutral. It wants to do so by banning symbols of religious faith such as Jewish skullcaps, Sikh turbans, Muslim head scarves and large crucifixes from public work places.” Read more here: Quebec Seeks Ban On Religious Symbols In Public…

Melona Clark, a student at Hampton University in Virginia, was forced by the school to obtain a letter from her chaplain and a letter from her mosque before the university would allow her to wear her headscarf on campus, reports the Huffington Post. “A historically black university in southeastern Virginia, Hampton specifies in its dress…

the hijab will remain more of a political statement than a religious one. If a woman in Sudan who refuses to wear hijab faces flogging, her civil liberties are in peril. I’ll wager that most American Muslims — men and women — agree with Abdullah Antepli, a Muslim chaplain at Duke University, who notes that…

The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center have announced a legal victory in a lawsuit against clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch over the firing of a Muslim worker who refused to remove her religiously-mandated hijab (headscarf) as a condition for keeping her job.…
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