Swiss voters approved a referendum to ban religious veils like the burqa or the niqab. A survey found no evidence that the minority who wear a niqab are connected to extremism, instead choosing to do ...

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Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...

A new dress code for female civil servants in Indonesia’s Central Lombok regency should concern all Indonesians. Women all over Central Lombok started purchasing niqabs. On July 3, for the first time, ...

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 ...