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A Muslim woman in the US state of Georgia was arrested Tuesday and ordered to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court after she refused to remove her headscarf , or hijab, upon entering a...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled Thursday that there was no human rights violation when a French school expelled two students for refusing to remove their headscarves ....

The government of the Netherlands on Tuesday detailed its plans to ban the burqa in and around all primary schools, including Muslim institutions. In a letter to parliament , Education Minister Ronald Plasterk ...

Angela Wu : "On June 27, the highest French administrative tribunal rejected a Muslim woman's application for citizenship. Reason: her religious practices and beliefs are not French enough. Faiza...

The French Council of State has denied a Moroccan-born Muslim woman's citizenship application because she failed to assimilate to French culture and she practices a type of Islam found incompatible with...

The Danish government said Wednesday that it would propose new legislation to ban sitting judges from wearing religious dress , including Islamic headscarves, in court. Also Wednesday, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticized Immigration...

A federal judge Monday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab in court. Ginnnah Muhammad had alleged that Illinois small claims Judge...

Turkey's main pro-secular opposition party appealed to the nation's Constitutional Court Wednesday to overturn recently approved amendments to the country's constitution easing a ban on Islamic headscarves in universities. The Republican People's...

At least 10 Turkish universities have continued to enforce a ban on headscarves despite recent amendments to the Turkish constitution lifting the ban, according to Monday media reports. Head of the Higher Education Board Yusuf Ozcan...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey Saturday formally passed the first of two proposed amendments to the country's constitution that would ease a current ban on Islamic headscarves and allow women to wear headscarves...