It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates. Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...

I recently wrote about how Westerns often overstated the importance of Egypt’s al-Azhar University - the most authoritative voice in Sunni Islam. al-Azhar, which...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar university said Thursday it would ban the niqab or face veil from female classrooms and dormitories, according to AFP. “The Supreme...

A Canadian Muslim group is calling on Ottawa to ban the wearing of the burka in public, saying the argument that the right to wear it is protected by the...

Egypt’s highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women’s veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh...

Every timing is priceless for the living, our’s madly-fast controversially-challenging the generation-established myths surely. Just news of the US judge Herman...

Iranian police have warned shopkeepers not to display female mannequins without a hijab, or showing bodily curves, Irna news agency reports. Display of bow ties and...

PARIS — It is a measure of France’s confusion about Islam and its own Muslim citizens that in the political furor here over “banning the burqa,” as the argument...

Jim Fitzpatrick, a British minister criticized the segregation of male and female guests at Muslim wedding. Yet another ‘Gaffe’ from another jumped up,...

Michigan’s Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing lower state courts to “exercise reasonable control” over the appearance of witnesses and...

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi The Muslim women veil issue in France is gradually taking an ugly shape across the world. The ‘extra’ liberal people possessed with Western...

French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in front of the French parliament that the Islamic face covering - Niqab - [not to be confused with the veil: Hijab] is a...

It finally came into open ,while delegating the ban on Burqas’ the garment which Muslim women wear and which covers them from head to toe, is a sign of...

Secularism is the religion of contemporary France. And the enforcers of that faith have a new target. “Today ... we are confronted by certain Muslim women wearing...

France is to make a move to ban veil in public places. It’s aimed at protecting the rights of women forced to efface themselves by covering their bodies entirely....

The Daily Show is by far the most astute, sharp and humorous news program in the United States, a nation where public discourse is usually very low-brow. Last night,...

Over the last few years the female student of Peshawar university have started adopting a particular getup. This trend is spreading like a forest fire. one feels as if...

Whether you call it Islamization, Talibanization, or sheer male dictatorship but the news is out: the head of the University of Malakand NWFP, has decided to ensure...

Being that I am not a Muslim woman, this a not a question I have ever addressed or ever will. I won’t even take a stand on it for my wife or daughter. But I know...

As a Muslim woman living in the embrace of a vibrantly secular, liberal democratic society, you are constantly caught between two very different worlds. On the one...