HIJAB TO BE BANNED IN FRANCE&GERMANY???

The issue of the hijab , the Muslim head scarf/dress code, has hit the media as never before. France and Germany are in the process of banning the headscarf in schools and educational institutions.

Read below the news reports and also a list of articles on Hijab and women in Islam provided by The Revival. Dont forget to have your say on this issue on The Revival Forums

World Reaction To The Hijab

France is not the only country where headscarves have proved contentious. A number of countries already ban the garment from schools and other public buildings, while elsewhere it is the failure of women to don a veil which prompts outrage. Read More

French MPs back headscarf ban

French MPs have voted by a massive majority to ban the Islamic headscarf and all other overt religious symbols from state schools.

The bill was passed by 494 votes to 36. It now goes to the upper house, the Senate, for approval. Read More

Liberty, Equality & The Headscarf

France's failure to integrate minorities is exposed by a headscarf Explains Caroline Wyatt.

French President Jacques Chirac has widespread popular support for the proposal to ban the wearing of religious symbols in state schools. And everyone knows that it is really about the Islamic headscarf....Read More>>

The Hijab experience in Canada

Katherine Bullock, a convert to Islam analyzes the Hijab, and the furore that surrounded it.

The furore over the expulsion in 1995 of Quebec high school students who refused to remove their head scarves, with some people declaring the Hijab might not be considered proper “Canadian” dress, demonstrates that the West has not yet transcended the negative stereotype of the oppressed, veiled Muslim woman which has generated during the period of Western colonization of the Middle East ... Read More>>

Few pieces of headwear prompt such controversy.

A number of European countries have been struggling with the dilemmas posed by the Muslim headscarf, which throws up a variety of difficult issues relating to tolerance and equality.

France is currently considering an outright ban on the wearing of veils in schools, while in Germany, two states have proposed legislation which would also bar the scarf from educational institutions. >>> Read more...

Jewish dad backs headscarf daughters

A row over women's rights to wear headscarves has broken out again in France - but this time supporters of the right of Muslim girls to cover their head in school have a new and unusual champion.>>> Read more...

French clerics oppose scarf ban

Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders in France have condemned a proposed ban on conspicuous religious signs such as headscarves or crucifixes in schools. .>>> Read more...

ARTICLES ON HIJAB AND WOMEN IN ISLAM BY THE REVIVAL:

Women's liberation through Islam

Today people think that women are liberated in the West and that the women's liberation movement began in the 20th century. Actually, the women's liberation movement was not begun by women but was revealed by God to a man in the seventh century by the name of Muhammad (peace be upon him), who is known as the last Prophet of Islam. The Qur'an and the Traditions of the Prophet (Hadith or Sunnah) are the sources from which every Muslim woman derives her rights and duties.........

Why should a Muslim woman wear a Hijab?

A short article on at least seven reasons why a muslim woman should wear the hijab.

Hijab in the workplace?

An excellent Question & Answers on wearing the hijab especially in the workplace.

Hijabed Like Me

A Non Muslim Woman Experiments with Hijab by Kathy Chin

Islamic Sisterhood challenges stereotypes

by Marc Ramirez Seattle Times staff reporter

Islam, Culture and Women

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

How can anyone justify Islam's treatment of women, when it imprisons Afghans under blue shuttlecock burqas and makes Pakistani girls marry strangers against their will? How can you respect a religion that forces women into polygamous marriages, mutilates their genitals, forbids them to drive cars and subjects them to the humiliation of "instant" divorce? In fact, none of these practices are Islamic at all........

What are women's rights in Islam?

A short article on at least 12 basic rights which Islam gives to women

177 Reasons for the High Status of Women in Islam

This is a compilation of all the verses in Quran that refer to "women".

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Sajid Iqbal

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