Ghazala Hashmi, elected as lieutenant governor, became the first Muslim woman to win statewide office in any state.

NBC News projects that state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi has won the race to become Virginia's next lieutenant governor.

Manoozh Noori said she "wanted to die" when the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Noori had defied family ...

Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), stated that Muslim women should be allowed to access health services while wearing the hijab, but opposed the wearing of ...

More than 20 countries already ban or restrict burqas and niqabs (full-body and face coverings) worn by some Muslim women in ...

FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, who has lobbied for a burqa ban in Britain, has been accused of ...

The Islamic veil is a garment used by Muslim women to cover certain parts of the body. In the most common form, known as hijab, it covers only the head; longer versions, such as the burka and niqab, ...

The burka, an all-encompassing veil that hides every inch of a woman’s body including her face, is not a symbol of faith. It ...

The niqab – usually referred to erroneously in Britain as the burqa – is a marginal trend across most Muslim traditions; both ...

Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Robert Jenrick of racism for wanting to ban the burka – a strange ...

Two Muslim women in Portugal who wear the hijab have spoken out against a ban on the burka, saying that it threatens women’s ...

The Conservative leader dismissed shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick 's suggestion that the Muslim face veil should be ...