Hijab ban in Basketball. Will they lift it?
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir has been playing basketball for 22 years. The former Division 1 NCAA player holds the scoring record by a high school player in…
Discrimination
Slovakia toughens rules to deny Islam official status
Slovakia passed legislation on Wednesday to effectively block Islam from gaining official status as a religion in the near future in the latest sign of…
Denmark: Parliament votes to ban burqas, niqabs in some public places
The Dutch Parliament’s lower house voted on Tuesday to ban the wearing of face-covering clothes – such as burqas and niqabs – in some public…
Hijabi And Burkini-Wearing Teen Hopes To Break Down Muslim Stereotypes At Pageant
This teen made history by competing at a beauty pageant in her traditional dress and modest swimwear. Since Donald Trump’s election, the USA has seen a…
Southern Azerbaijan: Activists Languish in Prison After Raising their Voices Against Ethnic Discrimination
At least eight political prisoners in Iran have gone on hunger strike to protest the conditions of their imprisonment, demanding that their unjust prison sentences…
Iraqis from Finland faced torture and death
Of late, Finland has stepped up refusals to Iraqi asylum-seekers on the grounds that parts of Iraq actually may be considered safe, despite Daesh attacks….
Israeli café forbids Arabs to speak their native tongue
Arab employees at an Israeli cafe have been banned from speaking their own language at work. Café Café, the country’s largest coffee shop chain with…
US Airlines removes Muslim from flight for saying ‘InshaAllah’
A Muslim man was told to leave a Southwest Airlines flight after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone. Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a…
Bulgaria bans full-face veils in public spaces
Bulgaria’s parliament on Friday banned the wearing of face veils in public in a move which supporters said would boost security in the wake of…
Hungarian Muslims ‘feel the hate’ as vote on migrants looms
Maja is no immigrant, she’s a Muslim convert. But in the febrile atmosphere in Hungary ahead of Sunday’s referendum on refugees, she says her religion…