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'Outside the Bedroom, Women Must Wear a Scarf' The Mullahs force France to impose Islamic dress code. April 15, 2016 Dr. Majid Rafizadeh    The Islamist mullahs of Iran are meticulously spreading their Sharia laws to other countries and cultures through various methods.  If they cannot conquer the world with their military and convert everyone to their radical version of Islam, they will do it in other shrewd ways.  The Islamic Republic succeeded in forcing Air France, with the silent compliance of the socialist French government, to force its women flight attendants to comply with Iran’s Sharia law, including wearing...

Air France stewardesses, furious at being ordered to wear headscarves in Tehran, say they will refuse to fly to the Iranian capital when the airline resumes the service later this month. Female members of flight crews have been ordered to cover their hair once they disembark in Tehran and unions are demanding that the flights be made voluntary for women.

Iranian Women's Rugby team takes to the field wearing modesty preserving headscarves and tracksuits.

April 8, 2009 SNIPPET: "The lawsuit, handled by U.S. District Court in Reno, alleges that Elhifny faced death threats and harassment and school administrators did nothing to stop the abuse. Cox said that wasn't true, and the teen was unable to give any description of her tormenter — including his or her gender, size and tone of voice. He said the high school tried to investigate her claims but was unsuccessful because of the lack of information."

A Pennsylvania high school is permitting Muslim students to wear scarves known as kaffiyehs in school just a day after ordering two students to remove them for class. Gateway High School officials met with parents Wednesday after seniors Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 18, and Ahmad Al-Sadr, 17, left school Tuesday after refusing to take off the checkered scarves, believed by some to be a symbol of terrorism.

ISTANBUL: Secular women at parties speak disdainfully of covered women and the neighborhoods they populate. Older people shake their heads and cluck their tongues at them. High school boys yell, "Go back to Iran." Adamantly secular Turks "hate religious people," said Atilla Yayla, a Turkish political philosophy professor teaching in England. "They don't encounter them as human beings. They want them to evaporate, to disappear as fast as possible." "In the past, when a person with a scarf walked by me, I didn't feel anything toward them," said a 24-year-old lawyer in a Starbucks in a fashionable Istanbul neighborhood the...

**EXCERPT** ISTANBUL, Feb. 9 Turkey's parliament voted Saturday to end a more than 80-year-old ban on women wearing head scarves at universities, acknowledging the rising influence of conservative Islam in the most determinedly secular republic of the Muslim world. Tens of thousands of secular Turks marched in the capital, Ankara, against lifting the ban. Many brandished portraits of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded modern Turkey in 1923 with the goal of making it a Westernized, secular republic. "Turkey is secular and will remain secular," the protesters chanted, swinging poles bearing the red flag of the Turkish republic.

She is short, powerful and understated. And at one time, she was underestimated. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made clear her perspective on some issues when she spoke Sunday at an Atlanta synagogue. It matters that women and minorities are on the high court — if only for the public get equal access to the bathroom, she said in one of the lighter moments of her talk. The court itself, while collegial, has entered a period of turbulence with a series of 5-4 decisions that started with Bush v. Gore, the decision that ended the 2000 presidential election...

A court upheld a German state's ban on teachers wearing the Muslim head scarf in public schools, rejecting a woman's appeal against a decision not to employ her. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, is one of several regions that have introduced head scarf bans for teachers in recent years. The 28-year-old plaintiff had argued that the state's law was discriminatory and violated her religious freedom. However, the administrative court in Duesseldorf said regional law did not allow for religious statements that might infringe on the state's neutrality toward students and parents. Presiding judge Kurt Buechel argued that wearing a...

A TURKISH court yesterday acquitted a 92-year-old archaeologist for claiming that Islamic-style head scarves were first worn more than 5,000 years ago by priestesses initiating young men into sex.In a trial that lasted less than an hour, the court in Istanbul acquitted Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on the Sumerian civilisation of Mesopotomia of around the third millennium BC, of insulting religious feelings. The diminutive, pro-secular academic, who was born in 1914 - the waning years of the Ottoman Empire - was the latest person to go on trial for expressing her views, despite intense European Union pressure on Turkey...

Chicago Teen Sentenced to "Sensitivity Training" from CAIR Eighteen year-old David Huffman says he “tapped” a Muslim woman on the head, nearly dislodging her headscarf, as a “prank.” He was charged with battery, and pleaded guilty. But instead of fining or sentencing him to jail, the judge ordered him to undergo “sensitivity training” from the foremost radical Islamic front group in the United States, at the notorious Bridgeview Mosque: ‘Prank’ gets teen lesson in tolerance from CAIR. (Hat tip: Jim C.) David Huffman told police it was just a prank gone wrong: On April 22, at a McDonald’s in Tinley...

Human rights groups in Tunisia say women who wear an Islamic headscarf are being persecuted by the authorities. The groups say that school girls with the headscarf are being harassed and forced to remove the headcover at schools and universities. The authorities deny this, but say they are encouraging women, instead, to wear modest dress in line with Tunisian traditions. This is a long-running battle between the authorities and Islamist groups. It is part of a wider war between the ostensibly secular - and at times despotic - Arab governments and increasingly assertive Islamist groups. The challenge facing the Tunisian...

Despite a policy that allows motorists to wear religious head coverings in their driver license photos, some Muslim women complain that workers at the state Motor Vehicle Commission continue to require them to either remove their head scarfs or pull them back so that a substantial amount of hair is showing. After several of the women complained, the motor vehicle agency wrote several letters of apology, and promised to redouble its efforts to make sure all its employees are familiar with guidelines on head coverings, and apply them equally to everyone. Sarah Elfayoumi went to have her photo taken at...

Posted: June 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Imagine it's 1939. Hitler is on the move. As always, the world wants desperately to avoid war. Here are the terms Hitler puts on the table: We will stop our drive for new territory only when all the Jews are out of Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Would the civilized world accept such a demand? I doubt it. Even if it meant avoiding war, I doubt very much if the United States and Great Britain would say it was a good deal. I doubt very much they would...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish supermarket chain is free to ban employees from wearing religious headscarves at work, Denmark's High Court ruled on Friday. The case had been brought by a Muslim woman who was dismissed without pay in 2001 from her job in one of Dansk Supermarked's stores because she wished to wear a headscarf at work. The court accepted the bar as it is part of a general ban on headgear for employees in customer-facing roles at the group's four supermarket chains. "The legislator has weighed the the right of an employer to demand a uniform or a...

The southern German state of Bavaria has become the latest of the country's federal states to ban Muslim school teachers from wearing headscarves. The Bavarian parliament approved the measure after Culture Minister Monika Hohlmeier argued that the headscarf was a symbol of the repression of women. Three other German states - Lower Saxony, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saarland - have already imposed similar bans. Displaying Christian and Jewish symbols will still be allowed in Bavaria. More than three million Muslims live in Germany and many have complained that the laws restrict their freedom to express their religion. In the state of Hesse,...

<p>BERLIN, March 19 (UPI) -- A German Muslim woman watching her son's trial in juvenile court was expelled from a Berlin courtroom after refusing to uncover her head.</p> <p>The expulsion marks the latest chapter in Germany's debate about the place of religious clothing in public life.</p>

France's Assemblée nationale (Parliament) has voted to ban headscarves from schools. Announcer noted that it passed by a wide margin. After all the talk and debate, it's official now.

AP , PARIS Tuesday, Dec 23, 2003,Page 6 Muslim women in Paris on Sunday protest against a ban on Islamic headscarves in schools, hospitals and public buildings. Thousands of people, mainly Muslim women shouting "The veil, my choice," marched through Paris on Sunday against presidential proposals to ban Islamic head scarves from public schools and maybe at work, too. The protest, a cry of anguish from a rarely heard section of French society, was the first in Paris against President Jacques Chirac's announcement on Wednesday that head scarves and other conspicuous religious symbols, including Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses,...

The German Chancellor wants to bar Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves in public schools FRANKFURT - Less than a week after French President Jacques Chirac announced plans to ban religious symbols from public schools, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has said that headscarves have 'no place' among public school teachers. Unlike Mr Chirac, however, Mr Schroeder said he could not prevent Muslim school girls from covering their heads in the classroom. Debate over whether to ban Muslim teachers from wearing headscarves has occupied Germany since the nation's highest court ruled in September that teachers were allowed to wear them, unless states...