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Does the Muslim headscarf boost body image?

By Lauren Markoe — September 16, 2014
(RNS) A new British study shows that Muslim women who wear headscarfs think better of their bodies than Muslim women who don't.

EEOC details employer rules as religious worker complaints rise

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 6, 2014
(RNS) As complaints near record highs, the EEOC is making its guidelines for religious workplace accommodation elaborately clear.

Muslim majorities open to democracy, but cautious

By Omar Sacirbey — January 9, 2014
(RNS) Large majorities of people in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Tunisia and Turkey said their country would be better off if religion and government were separated.

Muslim clerk wins hijab fight against Abercrombie and Fitch

By Omar Sacirbey — September 9, 2013
(RNS) Abercrombie argued that it was exercising its right to commercial free speech, and that an employee who wore a headscarf could hurt the store’s business, even though the company could not produce any evidence of economic harm.

Women wear hijabs in support of slain Iraqi woman

By Tracy Gordon — April 2, 2012

(RNS) Jean Younis is a Christian but she's donning a headscarf to stand in solidarity with Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and mother of five who died March 24 three days after being beaten in her home in El Cajon, Calif. By Omar Sacirbey

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