(RNS) — ‘It’s not like taking off someone’s hat. It’s like taking off their pants or removing their shirt,’ one expert witness told RNS.

Nazma Khan, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh at age 11, faced years of shaming over wearing a headscarf in New York. So, in 2013, she started World Hijab Day – a day for both Muslim ...

Muslim women have spoken about how wearing the hijab is “empowering” in the face of a new poll that has revealed almost half of Britons believe that women are pressured into putting it on. The survey ...

A photo in which three of the four women are wearing head coverings spread online in derogatory posts claiming the ...

In India, a group that advocates for Muslim women finds itself caught in the crossfire of the broader debate over a Uniform ...

A newly-appointed chaplain for Toronto police is speaking out after coming under fire from the police union for comments made about marriage and women's duties to their husbands. Musleh Khan says he ...

Civic engagement — including volunteering and registering to vote — rather than religiosity was more correlated with giving by Muslim American women, according to research we conducted with our ...

(RNS) — The thrill of it will never get old for me: seeing Muslim women, especially Muslim women wearing hijab, playing sports, in school, amateur level or professionally. As the NCAA and WNIT women’s ...

An Afghan woman in a burqa crosses a cemetery where children are flying their kites on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. During the Eid al-Adha holidays, families often ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m a serial entrepreneur building an inclusive future of work. In recent years, there has been a troubling rise in anti-Muslim ...