Word: headscarf
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...religious expression—students can wear bandannas to show their gang affiliations, for example, but not for their religion. The education minister’s laughable clarification comes after some leaders of France’s Muslim organizations advised French women who wanted to continue wearing the headscarf to wear small bandannas instead...
...claiming a decision to force him to stay in the city - where he and his family have been the victims of racist attacks - breaches his human rights. In Paris, a young Algerian woman is suing her employer for unlawful dismissal after she was fired for refusing to adjust her headscarf. Europe is home to some 12.5 million Muslims who suffer high unemployment - and, since Sept. 11 - growing mistrust from non-Muslims. One sign of the tension came when the French government tried to create a representative council for French Islam. French Muslim organizations were set to choose their representatives last...
...would bear him six sons," she says), she decided to escape to the Netherlands. Right from the start she felt pressure to conform from the Somali community in the Netherlands. But she resisted. "I wanted to be part of Dutch society, to be financially independent, take off my headscarf and drink alcohol," she says. In the spring of this year she finally admitted to herself that she was no longer a Muslim, and she started speaking out. But she quickly found herself caught in a cultural divide. "As a liberal society, the Dutch are against the oppression of the individual...
...compel most to pass these saccharine shows off as propaganda pieces. Skeptical foreigners wary of United States intervention around the world won’t all of a sudden trust the state department because, in place of a heavy-set balding white man, an olive-skinned American in a headscarf tells them that we’re really not the great Satan, after all. Those who are less critical of the United States will, at the very least, find the videos’ rosy message extremely patronizing...
...Muslim Harvard graduate student was verbally and physically harassed at the Harvard Square T stop in the only reported hate crime at Harvard after the terrorist attacks. The victim, who was wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf, was on her way to weekly congregational prayers...