In February, two Muslim women attended a live-taping of Fox’s The Real talk show, which sounds like fun … until someone told the pair to stay out of sight because of their headscarves.

Lassana Bathily, the grocery clerk who has received international accolades for his heroism during the recent hostage crisis at a Parisian kosher market, was detained for 90 minutes by Paris police after alerting them that several customers were alive and hiding in the basement.

Saudia, Saudi Arabia's national airline, is reportedly planning to begin segregating their flights by gender. The move, first reported by Arabic-language news agency Ajel, is in response to male passengers complaining about their wives and daughters being seated next strange men.

In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one on Earth, some students at the University of California, Berkeley aren't very welcoming to people who spout anti-Islamic bullshit on a daily basis.

After taking control of Mosul, Iraq's largest city last month, the extreme al Qaeda splinter group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams) are continuing their New Iraqi Order. This time, instead of telling women to stay inside, they are covering the faces of mannequins.

Iranian actress Leila Hatami has come under fire from Hizbullah Students, a student organization with ties to Iran's revolutionary guard, for kissing Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Festival. While Hatami's behavior was decried by Islamic Republic officials, Hizbullah Students has gone further, filing a report…

A Muslim woman says Planet Fitness kicked her out of the gym for wearing a head scarf which did not fit their dress code policy.

The 1992 Disney movie Aladdin has been retooled into a Broadway musical, opening this Thursday in New York. But unlike other Disney/Broadway hits — Beauty and the Beast and the long-running Lion King — Aladdin comes with baggage the size of a vest-wearing elephant.

UK universities are pushing back against gender segregation in classrooms — apparently Prime Minister David Cameron isn't a fan of separating the co-eds — but the legality of such separation, say if there's a visiting lecturer discussing Islam which might request such division, is still murky.

Mipsterz, which is a loose group of self-proclaimed "Muslim hipsters," has released a video entitled "Somewhere In America." It shows several Muslim young women, all in hijabs, doing a variety of activities: skateboarding, posing, laughing, biking, fencing, listening to music in the woods, etc., set to a soundtrack…

There sure have been a lot of newly minted Islam experts popping up in the past week — and in the places you'd least expect them. Fox News, the woman at the New York Times whose classical Greek references have devolved from incisive to dodderingly inscrutable, and several typically myopic conservative news outlets…

The latest state to hop on the nutty abortion law train is North Carolina, where the Senate just passed an anti-sharia law with a twist that not even the wiliest M. Night Shyamalan buff could have seen coming: an out-of-left field amendment that would basically ban abortion in the state. In the state legislature,…

In the post 9/11 world, where everyone loves to fall back on a clash of the civilizations explanation for Why We Don't Get Along with "The Muslim World," one group of people tend to get a lot of attention in the midst of the cultural debate: veiled women. They have become the focal point of countless debates on…

There was a lot of concentrated public kissing yesterday in Turkey, which, depending on your threshold for watching other people trade tiny food particles in public, was either an inoffensive spectacle or a reason not to ever participate in a kiss protest.

What's your image of a devoutly Muslim woman? Pious and shy? Virginal and unwilling to experiment? Well, if this devoutly Muslim woman is married, you're probably wrong.

A prominent cleric in Iran has warned his fellow countrymen that if there’s an earthquake a comin’, it’s probably because of women who wear “revealing” dresses, since, as geologists have known for years now, earthquakes are nothing more than the deep belly laughter of the Earth as she laughs in utter frustration at…

Dear Mom: This letter is probably going to upset you, though that is not my intention. I am writing this because we do not have the best track record for having emotionally loaded conversations in person. I know it is not your intention to upset me either, but when your knee-jerk response is to consider much of what…

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Yeah, you read the headline right. A group of men was deported from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates because their chiseled features and perfectly coifed hair was deemed "too handsome." The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices was reported to have feared that female visitors of the…

FEMEN, the Ukrainian feminist group that's been grabbing headlines for their topless protesting, has used their naked bodies as billboards for messages against the patriarchy, religion, and political suppression. While Russia's Vladmir Putin smirks at them from behind security guards, in predominantly Muslim…