Countries from Italy to Sweden are debating the right of women to wear the niqab. Canada is the latest country to enter the fray, with the Muslim Canadian Congress desiring to ban it. Is such a ban ...

Europe’s traditions of secular tolerance appear to be haunted by the Islamic veil. Every week seems to bring new headlines announcing moves to crack down on the wearing of what critics appear to deem ...

More than one in three Muslim women have experienced racist abuse on public transport, according to a new report ...

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (AP) — As Sri Lanka's long civil war ended in this once-contested region along its eastern coast, Muslim women eager to show their piousness began wearing the black niqab veil to ...

The British were among the most vocal critics of the French ban–back when they were still quite pleased with their own multicultural model. But on October 5, ex-foreign minister Jack Straw revealed ...

A Muslim woman in Gary, Indiana was told to either remove her traditional religious veil or leave the convenience store in which she was shopping. Sarah Safi says she was picking up charcoal for a ...

Nigerian chef Sherifah Yunus Olokodana speaks during an interview with Reuters in her studio in Lagos Nigerian chef Sherifah Yunus Olokodana speaks during an interview with Reuters in her studio in ...