Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, known for her tolerance, has proposed a ban on the Muslim full-veil, wherever it is legally possible. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party conference hall erupted with applause as she finished announcing her proposal. Speaking at the conference, she said, “We have to show our face during personal communication. […]

Meet a Somali-American teen, Halima Aden, who’s efficiently creating buzz on social media for winning the Miss Minnesota USA pageant with a hijab. Yes, you heard it right!

By now, most of us are aware of this French city Nice and the infamous incident of armed French policemen asking a woman to remove her burkini on a beach there

Time to contemplate our double standards on the rights and privileges of different genders and the way we think of women’s bodies

The deeply disturbing photo of armed policemen in Nice, France, forcing a woman to strip off her burkini at a beach will hopefully never be seen again, now that the highest court in France has suspended the country’s ban on the cover-all swimwear worn by many Muslim women because it found that it “seriously and […]