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A German [Southern] state of Baden-Wuerttemberg yesterday endorsed a law banning teachers from wearing the veil in public schools, but the same law allows Christian and Jewish symbols. This [law] foretells an outbreak of debate similar to that witnessed in France. The governments of six states want...
The Committee for Children’s Rights of the United Nations asked France yesterday to edit the law of banning religious symbols so that it does not lead to the expulsion of students from schools. The Committee stated that “the state should guarantee that the rights of individuals are not violated and...
Shabina Begoum, A 15-year old Bengali Muslim student living in Britain, said that the school prevented her from wearing a jelbab that covers her entire body except her hands and face. She said that her education has been affected and her human rights violated as a result of this decision. The...
For four concessive weeks, the issue of prohibiting wearing the hijab in French schools occupied the Arabic press. Tens of articles have been published as to elucidate Chirac’s decision from different aspects. On the one hand, few writers believe such decision is a French domestic subject that...
Due to the fact that he is close to decision-making circles, or to be more correct at their center, he knows all the facts. He is a good reader of various issues, with all their reflections and the input on current situations. Here lies the importance of this interview with Dr. Usama Al-Baz, the...
The article reports about the response of Tareq Ramadan, a Swiss Islamic intellectual and the grandson of Hassan Al-Banna [the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt] to the decision of someone of the municipality of district No. 12 in Paris for canceling the lease of a hall where Ramadan...
Mamdouh Ismail criticizes the opinions of Prince Al-Walid Ibn Talal [the owner of the music satellite channel Rotana] on the issue of the veil in France and of martyrdom operations. The prince voiced his opinion in an interview with the French paper Le Figaro.
The Grand Imam of Al Azhar Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi confirmed that the veil is an Islamic obligation and whoever denies it is considered an apostate. During the meeting of the head authority of the International Islamic Council for Da’wa and Relief, he said that dealing with the French veil ban...
Today, a harsh delusory media campaign would be mounted against France due to the law banning the donning of explicit religious symbols. We might as well take France’s ’lead and put our house in order by going after the countless issues we tend to shelf or place ’on hold’, leaving them...
A British court upheld the right of a Muslim girl student to wear her hijāb [headscarf] inside her school in a case that sparked a public uproar reminiscent of the one in France about the hijāb in government schools.

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