Late last year, during a month Muslims devote to self-reflection and worship, 16-year-old Theheerah Ahmad made a decision to reaffirm her faith by wearing a scarf to cover her hair, as her mother does ...

A Pennsylvania high school is permitting Muslim students to wear scarves known as kaffiyehs in school just a day after ordering two students to remove them for class. Gateway High School officials met ...

Muslim girls largely complied with a controversial ban on head scarves in the classroom on first day of school Thursday, officials said, as the government and Muslim leaders tried to avoid any ...

President Jacques Chirac, warning that growing ethnic and religious divisions threatened to erode France’s tradition of equality, called Wednesday for a new law that would ban Muslim head scarves and ...

Thirteen-year-old Gulsezim Samat hasn't attended classes since mid-October, when she was told to remove her head scarf before entering her school in the Kazakh village of Chapaev. The school in West ...

Students at Lincoln Middle School joined Lancaster’s scarf-bombers this week and helped those in need stay warm. When they left dozens of donated scarves in downtown Lancaster, the students followed ...

MULHOUSE, France — A French school expelled two girls Tuesday for wearing Muslim head scarves, the first students to be kicked out since Paris imposed a ban on religious symbols in state schools last ...

The kind-hearted scarf distributors have been located. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, winter scarves appeared along Michigan Avenue with little notes attached: “I was not forgotten here and neither ...