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The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described as a family dispute over a Muslim head scarf was charged with murder, becoming the second family member accused in her death, police said Friday.
A judicial official says Turkey's top court will consider this week whether to cancel a law allowing Islamic head scarves in universities.
Turkey's president approved on Friday a pair of constitutional amendments that would allow female students to wear Islamic head scarves at universities.
Parliament voted Saturday to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey's universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.
Lawmakers voted early Thursday to approve a constitutional amendment allowing female students to enter universities wearing Islamic head scarves — a move that many secular Turks view as an attempt to impose religion on their daily lives.
Some 125,000 Turks, mostly women, denounced the government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at universities in the mainly Muslim but secular nation.
Turkey's military has a tradition of interfering in politics, even staging several coups in past decades. But on Wednesday, the chief of the secular armed forces refrained from direct comment on one of his country's most explosive debates: the Islamic head scarf.
Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday challenged a ban on women wearing head scarves in universities and public offices, saying there is no need to wait for a constitutional change to remove the ban, state-run media said.
A Canadian cab driver charged with strangling his 16-year-old daughter after friends said she refused to wear a Muslim head scarf and follow conservative religious values was denied bail on Wednesday.
Tulsa teen alleges Abercrombie & Fitch store did not hire her because of religious head scarf -- latimes.comTulsa teen alleges Abercrombie & Fitch store did not hire her because of religious head scarf
Update: Teen lied about Muslim student not standing for pledge According to the reports, the school principal, Susan Duval, said she spoke with the teacher who was in the classroom with the Muslim girl. The teacher confirmed the girl was standing.
Muslims welcome police scarf moveAvon and Somerset Police is issuing head coverings to its female officers so they can enter mosques.
Muslim anger at Opposition calls for school ban on hijab"MUSLIM girls should not be allowed to wear a headscarf in public schools, the two main opposition parties said last night. Labour's Ruairi Quinn said immigrants who come to Ireland need to conform to the culture of this country.
Some Turks Question Timing of Iraq Push. . . many Turkish observers say that the operation, launched last week, also paved the way for something else entirely: head scarves.
Turks Protest Plan to End Scarf Ban - New York TimesANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of secular Turks rallied Saturday against a plan by the government to allow female students to wear head scarves in universities, a move they say will usher in a stricter form of Islam in Turkey.
Turkey moves to lift ban on head scarves - International Herald TribuneISTANBUL: The governing political party of Turkey - a class of young, observant Muslim politicians - reached an agreement to lift a ban on the wearing of head scarves by women attending universities, a move likely to enrage the country's staunchly secular old guard and clear the …
Dutch to ban burqas in schools and government officesThe Dutch government is set to impose a ban on the Muslim burqa in schools and government offices, media reported on Wednesday, in a retreat from the previous cabinet's plan for a general ban.
Another Hijab LawsuitHere's a particularly egregious example of ACLU-radical Islamic collaboration, as a 29-year old Muslim woman files a civil rights lawsuit against San Bernardino police because she was forced to remove her head scarf—when she was arrested and booked for possession of an invali …
"Dress in Fiction" by Clair Hughes - reviewed in Haaretz - Israel News Defoe's Roxana learns that "To sell herself, the packaging has to be right." This rule still applies today in the West, where a woman is no longer the property of her father and husband, and must make her way in a society that expects her to support herself, but also to please m …
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