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TLC draws in viewers by offering a glimpse into the lives of unusual people. There are the Duggars, Freaky Eaters, Hoarding: Buried Alive, The Little Couple, the saving-obsessed ladies of Extreme Couponing, and, of course, the makeup-spackled youngsters of Toddlers & Tiaras. But last night, All-American Muslim premiered, and the the program seemed to focus on how normal the residents of Dearborn, MI are. We were introduced to five (very) different families, and the only thing they have in common is religion. More »
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In 2006, Souhair Khatib went to a jail in Orange County, California to ask for more time to complete her community service. She wound up being jailed for several hours, and deputies made her take off her hijab, though she told them it's against her religious beliefs to remove her head scarf in public. Her case was dismissed twice when courts found that a holding cell is a some kind of special zone where laws that allow prisoners to wear religious garmets don't apply. Today the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed her case, and ruled that she can go ahead with her lawsuit against the jail. More »
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The Staten Island boy charged with a hate crime for trying to rip off a classmate's hijab apparently had an accomplice — a 13-year-old girl also charged with a hate crime. The girl — and her school — have a history of infractions. More »
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A 12-year-old Staten Island boy has been charged with a hate crime for attacking a girl and trying to rip off her hijab. But his school apparently tried hard to get police to drop charges. More »
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Next time you are having dinner with a Bahraini dignitary, don't embarrass yourself by confusing the Queen's abaya with a burqa. More »
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Recently, Maryland seventh-grader Maheen Haq was forced to sit out during the first half of her basketball game, after league officials cited concerns over her hijab as a safety hazard. More »
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A woman who was arrested for refusing to take off her hijab at a Georgia courthouse is suing. She says, ""I hope that no person of faith will ever have to experience the type of egregious treatment I suffered." More »
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An Australian court has ruled that a woman cannot wear her niqab to testify in court — but the decision may be more about prejudice than legal necessity. More »
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A Muslim woman announced today that she'll be filing a discrimination complaint against Disneyland because her bosses there sent her home for wearing her hijab. More »
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Every time news about another hijab/niqab/burqa ban hits the press, editors rejoice: this is their chance to coin THE ultimate veil pun. Problem is, there's simply no such thing as a good veil pun. More »
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An Abercrombie & Fitch employee in northern California is alleging she was fired for refusing to remove her hijab, or headscarf marking her Muslim observance. Abercrombie's pursuit of a homogeneous army of "perfect" employees appears to have snared it again! More »
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A Muslim woman was jilted at the altar after her husband pulled back her veil and "discovered" that she didn't exactly look like her picture. The always-classy Daily Fail notes "a divorce was inevitable" for the bearded bride. [Daily Mail] More »
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"'You have to wear a hijab,' my husband told me shortly after we got married. 'Don't argue with me over this issue.'" So begins writer Dalya Hassan's somewhat disquieting account of "wearing a headscarf in Iraq": More »
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Yesterday, NPR's All Things Considered visited the shop of Iraqi entrepreneur Ali Mohammed who specializes in clothes for the "modern Iraqi woman." The shop - and the women who frequent it - reveal much about the country's shifting social norms. More »
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• Two teens from Indiana have brought a lawsuit against their school after they were barred from participating in school activities following the discovery of some racy pictures they posted on MySpace. • More »
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• Jamie McCourt, baseball's highest-ranking woman, has been fired from her position as the Dodgers' chief executive by her estranged husband Frank McCourt, who is the team's owner. Now she's believed to be trying to regain control of the team. More »
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Hailey Woldt is part of an anthropological project, led by American University Islamic studies professor Akbar Ahmed, to document what it is to be Muslim in America after September 11th. Her assignment: wear an abaya. More »
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Remember Jameelah Medina, the Muslim woman forced to take off her hijab in front of a male deputy? Watch a new video of her recounting the harassment she faced by clicking on the pic. More »
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A Muslim woman in Douglasville, Georgia was arrested yesterday after a judge found her in contempt of court for refusing to remove her hijab. Was it an example of religious intolerance? More »
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Since 2006, the guerrilla street artist "Princess Hijab" has been "hijab-izing" Parisian ads, covering pictured women's faces and bodies with spray paint and marker and pasting original "hijab ads" around the city. More »
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When Robin Yassin-Kassab met his wife Rana in Syria, where half of the women wore the hijab, he thought she shared his liberal values because she did not cover her head. But five years into their marriage Rana decided to start wearing the hijab, against her husband's wishes. "What really bothered me was people thinking Rana wore it because I forced her to," says Robin. Rana says before she began wearing the scarf, "I had not realized how much I had used the way I looked to get me places, be it in a job interview or at a party." She credits wearing the headscarf with making her develop her personality, and says that over time her husband has, "realized that this is what I want and he's given me the freedom to do it." [The Guardian] More »
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We've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating. Many women in Egypt report being harassed by men, even when wearing the pictured niqab or the more common hijab. Seventy-two percent of the 83 percent of Egyptian women that reported being harassed say they were harassed while veiled. Conservative groups in Egypt are encouraging women to adopt hijabs or niqabs to avoid harassment, while some women say they gave it up entirely after experiencing so much harassment — and are harassed less without. Once again, the problem is never what the woman is wearing — or what she was drinking — it's what men feel inappropriately (or illegally) entitled to do about it. [Washington Post] More »
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When watching the Olympics this year, don't be surprised if you see more veiled female athletes than before. The Beijing Games will see eleven female athletes from predominately Muslim countries who are opting to wear specially-designed hijabs while they compete. While countries like Saudi Arabia and Brunei do not allow women to officially participate in competitive sports, countries including Egypt, the UAE, Iran, Afghanistan, and Yemen are all sending female athletes to the Games, some for the first time. Roqaya Al Ghasara from Bahrain is perhaps the highest-profile female Muslim athlete; she won the gold in the West Asian Games for sprinting in 2005. She hopes that showing she can compete well in a hijab will break Western stereotypes of Muslim women. [Reuters] More »
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While many of us contemplate whether to look like a 1930s newsie or a 1960s secretary this fall, for observant Muslim women, says The Guardian's Homa Khaleeli, the question is a simpler one. "What" she queries, "will be autumn's key hijab look?" An ever-expanding number of blogs like Hijab Style, Hijabfashionista and The Hijab blog, Facebook groups and YouTube tutorials advise on new ways to tie the headscarf. And more to the point, how to integrate this visible mainfestation of faith into the realities of living in a modern world where the hijab has taken on, perhaps, undue significance to the non-Muslim population. Says Jana Kossaibati of Hijab Style, "Muslim girls are very conscious of the way they dress. When you wear a headscarf you stand out as a Muslim, so what kind of message are you also sending out if you look drab or messy?" More »
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Perhaps you have already let out a long woebegone sigh re the news of the two Obama volunteers who barred headscarf-wearing Muslim women from sitting near him at a rally in Detroit on Monday so as not to generate any more photographic fodder for the insane wing conspiracy. I would say this was a low point, but that would be to pretend the French ban on the things or the senseless murder of Alia Ansari — or for that matter, Monday's other headscarf debacle, the judge who ordered a London beauty salon owner to pay £4,000 to a Muslim woman she'd denied a job on account of her headscarf — hadn't happened. So here's the thing: can we drop this subject? And if not, can I somehow blame society's irritating insistence that the way a person dresses is the purest expression of a woman's identity for this fucking mess? Because back in Catholic school, I associated headscarves with Jesus' mom, and nuns. I didn't really get it with the nuns. No one was forcing them to don sixty pounds of black polyester in August. But guess what? More »
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