marking the latest step the French government has taken in curtailing Islamic dress in public. “I have decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in schools,” Attal said in the interview.

Why is France so worried about Muslim dress in its schools? Devised by Gabriel Attal, France’s education minister, the new rule was made official on August 31st, four days before term began.

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How Muslim women should dress has become a particular obsession of the authorities. In 2004, the country banned the hijab in state schools. Then in 2010, it passed a ban on full-face veils in public.

A 15-year-old girl has lost her High Court battle to wear a style of Islamic dress to school. Shabina Begum has been out of her Luton school since September 2002 in a row over her wish to wear an ...

At the 400-student Houston Quran Academy in Katy, students' STAAR test results are so important they are posted on the wall ...

Women also are required to cover their bodies in long, loose clothing. The uprisings have rolled across dozens of cities, and the government has blocked internet connectivity across the nation.

The new dress code comes after Tajikistan officially issued a ban in June on "clothes alien to Tajik culture," a term widely used by officials to describe Islamic dress, which they treat as an ...

In Uganda, where Muslims are roughly 14 per cent of the general population, modest dress code is usually the visible sign of a Muslim woman’s faith. However, at first glance, sometimes it is ...

Iran's clerical rulers view the hijab as a key pillar of the Islamic revolution that brought them to power, and consider more casual dress a sign of Western decadence. On Sunday, Gen. Saeed ...

With criticism growing over a notice making Islamic dress code mandatory for Muslim employees during office hours, the Institute of Public Health (IPH) Director Dr Muhammad Abdur Rahim cancelled the ...