The decision to wear the hijab is deeply personal and varies significantly from one individual to another The hijab, a headscarf worn by many Muslim women who feel it is a part of their religion, is ...

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Female Muslim police officers in Newark, New Jersey will now be able to wear the traditional head covering known as "hijab" as part of their uniforms. The change comes after an ...

Female Muslim police officers will no longer be barred from wearing a hijab as part of their uniform, Newark officials announced Thursday. “To be able to recognize people’s religion, how they practice ...

With its latest policy change, many are growing concerned that France is perpetuating Islamophobia. For its upcoming school year, the government is forbidding students from wearing the abaya, a modest ...

The decision this week of a group of young women in the Muslim-dominated Sandzak region of Serbia to wear the hijab has again highlighted the issue of religion's growing pulling power. Seven girls and ...

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is the author of “The End of Revolution: A ...

Women in Saudi Arabia don't need to wear an abaya, the full-length robe like dress that women in Saudi Arabia are required to wear, according to a top religious cleric. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a ...

Vernon Hills High School senior Yasmeen Abdallah, who is a Muslim, carefully wrapped the traditional hijab around the head of junior Charli Mosley while she explained its purpose. “You can't really ...

You can wear a Muslim head scarf, and you can wear the uniform of the Junior ROTC. Just not at the same time. That’s the word from the U.S. Army, which is supporting an officer’s ruling last month ...

Dildora, a 30-year-old Tajik mother in Dushanbe, had taken her children to see a doctor at a medical clinic near her home in early August when she was approached by a small team of state officials.

The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, has rejected a student’s request to wear the hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf, with the school’s standard uniform. Retired Lt. Gen John Rosa, ...