Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Islamic head scarves are a sign of separation and Britain’s Muslims should be encouraged to integrate with mainstream society in order to improve the ...

Michigan state courts are the last place you would expect this belief: Muslim women cannot act as competent witnesses in a court of law. As of Sept. 1, Rule 611 of the Michigan Rules of Evidence read: ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Muslim women in Australia’s most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under the latest laws giving New South Wales ...

The argument over Muslim women wearing the veil, which has recently polarized opinion in Britain, has also spread to Italy. A discussion on a TV talk show ended with one participant being offered ...

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BRUSSELS -- Since she started wearing a full Islamic veil six weeks ago, Selma said, she has been stared at, frowned at, muttered to, mocked as a "ghost" and forced by a policeman to lift her veil to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In much of the media outside Iran, female protesters not wearing the headscarf have been highlighted as symbols of defiance. AP ...

Wearing a Muslim veil revealing only her chestnut eyes, Maheesa Razia grabbed two small bundles of coriander and handed them to a vegetable vendor at the Whitechapel Street Market in east London.

Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban women from wearing face veils in public. Under the policy proposed by the French President, Muslim women would not be permitted to wear the niqab, which reveals only the ...

France’s uneasy relationship with its estimated 5 million Muslims is about to get even more tense. Less than a year after warning that the face-obscuring, full-body Islamic veils worn by some ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British judge ruled on Monday that a Muslim woman could not give evidence at her trial wearing a full-face veil, sparking debate about whether Britain should follow other European ...