The parliamentary leader of the ruling French party is to put forward a draft law within two weeks to ban the full-body veil from French streets and all other public places.

A 23 year old mother with a burka [went] to the disciplinary tribunal because she was turned away by a family doctor on Christmas Day. The Utrecht woman is upset and also lodged a complaint by the Equal Treatment Commission, reports AD. According to the Muslim woman, who went to the clinic with her sick [...]

Aside from the sad news itself, this is a rather horribly written article on Islam. Are they just banning the niqab and hijab across different places to show their deep-rooted hatred for Allah’s religion? What’s with the “Salafis” are “terrorists” and “view Al-Azhar with contempt?” Allah’s religion will always shine through in the end, but [...]

A man who tore a Muslim woman’s veil from her face as he passed her in the street has been ordered by a court to pay her £1,000 in compensation. Stephen Ard, 29, of Gypsy Lane, Leicester, also received a jail term of 16 weeks, suspended for a year, and 150 hours of community service. Leicester Magistrates’ Court heard victim Rehana Sidat felt “invaded and scared to walk down the street alone”. Ard pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated assault.

It’s like a race to see who can say the most ridiculous thing about hijab.  And Geert Wilders (leader of the far-right “Freedom Party” in Holland), wants in: Wilders’s newest proposal is to tax the Muslim headscarf. Any Muslim woman who wants to wear a headscarf – which he described as a ‘head-rag’ – would [...]