http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23172/burqa-australia http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23172/burqa-australia#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:52:56 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23172 Australian Retailers Association executive director Richard Evans said the suggestion the Muslim face covering was a security threat was distressing and outrageous.

"What these folks have done in Brisbane is to promote uncertainty and suspicion about everyone who wears a burqa," Mr Evans said. "It sends the wrong message to the whole community."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23172/burqa-australia/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23019/france-headscarves http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23019/france-headscarves#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:16:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23019 Europe's human rights court has thrown out a complaint by two French Muslim girls who were expelled from their school for refusing to remove their headscarves during sports lessons.

France, which takes secularism in state schools very seriously, passed a law in 2004 banning pupils from wearing conspicuous signs of their religion at school after a decade of bitter debate about Muslim girls wearing headscarves in class.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23019/france-headscarves/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22181/hijab-egypt http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22181/hijab-egypt#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:46:08 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22181 Female travelers consider Egypt one of the worst countries in the world for harassment on the streets -- second only to Afghanistan, where the Taliban forced all women behind the veil and into seclusion in their homes.

And it's not just women's perceptions. The United States and Britain both warn female visitors in travel advisories that they may face unwanted attention, or sexual attacks, in Egypt.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22181/hijab-egypt/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21433/judge-dismisses-case-of-woman-who-says-veil-cost-her-claim http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21433/judge-dismisses-case-of-woman-who-says-veil-cost-her-claim#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 16:37:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21433 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21433/judge-dismisses-case-of-woman-who-says-veil-cost-her-claim/feed 0