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Top French court upholds ban on Muslim abayas in schools

France's highest administrative court ruled Thursday that a school ban on abayas, traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women, was legal.

France 24

French court to rule on legality of abaya Muslim dress ban

France's highest administrative court is to rule on Thursday whether a school ban on abayas, traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women, is legal.

Radio France Internationale

‘Islamophobic policy’: French high school goes on strike over abaya ban

Teachers and students of a school in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb are protesting against the government’s new measures.

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China's concerning new strategy on human rights: unite the world behind a 'selective' approach

For more than three decades, China has struggled to contain criticism of its human rights record. It faced a storm of outrage over the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and condemnation of its mass incarceration of Muslim Uyghurs in recent years. Each time, the Chinese government has had to deal…

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Supreme Court seeks status report on probe into the Muzaffarnagar slapping incident

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Government on a plea by activist Tushar Gandhi for a time-bound investigation into a video that allegedly shows a Muzaffarnagar school teacher goading her students to slap their seven-year-old Muslim classmate, accompanied by communal remarks.

The Hindu

Won’t let INDIA bloc seat-sharing talks become media spectacle: SP leader

SP won't allow seat-sharing negotiations in U.P. to become a spectacle; SP neither rigid nor too flexible; BSP's inclusion in INDIA bloc not discussed; SP emerged out of anti-Congress sentiment; BJP scared of INDIA bloc; Javed Ali Khan, close confidant of Mulayam, appointed to INDIA coordination committee to placate Muslim…

The Hindu

Jifri-Shihab parley to address growing discord in Samastha

Samastha, Kerala's largest Sunni body, is taking steps to prevent a split over IUML dominance. Leaders of both Samastha and IUML are working towards a rapprochement to avoid any potential harm to the Muslim community. Social media groups promoting IUML and Samastha independence are being bridled to prevent a divide.…

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France goes back to school with abaya ban as government mulls uniforms

Some 300 French students wore abayas on the first day of school, days after the Education Minister announced their banning. The issue of what Muslim students are allowed to wear in schools continues to stir debate in France, where reintroducing uniforms will be tested in the autumn.

Radio France Internationale

Now, Hindu women threatened with rape and death by right-wing ‘activists’ for befriending young Muslim men

Tanu, Riya & Shilpi, all Hindu women, faced death & rape threats for posting pictures with Muslim men. Bajrang Dal members threatened their families & spread their personal details online.

The Hindu

Canadian man accused of running over and killing a Muslim family pleads not guilty

A Canadian man accused of deliberately running over and killing four members of a Muslim family in London, Ontario pleaded not guilty

The Independent UK

French schools send ‘dozens’ of Muslim girls home over traditional robe

298 girls, mostly aged 15 and over, wore the garment on Monday in spite of the ban

The Independent UK

Muslims are already excluded from French political life: that’s the real issue in the school abayas row

Abaya-wearing girls are seen not simply as students, but as envoys of global Islamism conspiring against the French nation, says sociologist and author Kaoutar Harchi

The Guardian - UK

Trial of man charged with running down Muslim family in Canada begins

Authorities say Nathaniel Veltman deliberately targeted Muslims in deadly, hate-fuelled attack in Ontario in 2021.

Al Jazeera

Amid graft scandal, Ukraine to appoint Muslim defence chief Rustem Umerov

Rustem Umerov is from the Muslim Tatar community in Crimea that largely resisted Russia’s 2014 annexation.

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Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas

Schoolgirls who refused to change out of the robes have been sent home with a letter to parents on secularism.

France 24

France's dress code dispute: What's behind back-to-school ban on abayas?

France's 12 million pupils are back at school after the summer break. In a nation that prides itself on its state education system, hot topics include a lack of teachers, exam reform, the skyrocketing cost of supplies for parents and how to tackle bullying. But the education ministry's ban on…

France 24

Macron open to ‘experimenting’ with school uniforms as abaya ban row mounts

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door Monday to experimenting in some public schools with uniforms or a dress code amid debate in France over a ban in classrooms on long robes worn mainly by Muslims.

France 24

A female slave market in Ethiopia? No, this is a Senegalese cultural event

A Dutch far-right politician has reposted a video claiming Muslim women in Ethiopia are being sold and enslaved. But our fact-checking reveals that the video actually shows "Ndut" - a rite of passage belonging to the Serer ethnic group in Senegal. Our team liaised with a father whose son participated…

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MYL workers felicitate teachers on Teachers’ Day eve

Muslim Youth League workers in Marakkara felicitated 125 teachers on Teachers' Day. Gifts and shawls were presented to the teachers.

The Independent UK

Clashes erupt in Sweden's third largest city after another Quran burning and at least 3 are detained

Police in Sweden say clashes have erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in the third largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Quran

France 24

Indian government accused of rewriting history through schoolbook changes

In India, schoolteachers and pupils alike are grappling with the Hindu nationalist government's rewriting and sanitising of textbooks. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has extensively revised secondary school curricula, removing all mention of the country's Mughal and Muslim history, which spanned some six centuries, as well as the identity of…

The Hindu

BJP, SP accuse each other of corrupting Ghosi bypoll, complain to EC

BJP and SP accuse each other of influencing Ghosi bypoll. BJP State President writes to Chief State Election Commissioner alleging SP candidate distributing money in Dalit and Muslim areas. SP claims BJP trying to influence poll through govt. machinery. Both parties submit memorandums to Election Commission. Election Commission urged to…

The Hindu

Court’s order and the ASI survey are flawed

The Gyanvapi mosque has been a place of public worship for centuries for Muslims and, therefore, there is an absolute and total bar on changing its character in any manner

The Hindu

The many faces of Islamophobia

A new political class in India wishes to weaponise Islamophobia and make it a part of a state policy, in turn posing a serious threat to India’s secular social order

The Independent UK

France's Macron says schools will be 'intractable' in enforcing ban on robes often worn by Muslims

French President Emmanuel Macron says public school students won’t get past the door if they show up dressed in long robes mainly worn by Muslims

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