Egypt university loses fight to ban fully veiled student
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A Cairo court ruled on Saturday that a private Egyptian university can not ban a visiting student from entering its premises in full Islamic veil, a judicial source said.
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Egypt has banned editions of two French   and German newspapers, Le Figaro and the Frankfurter Allgemeine   Zeitung, because of articles deemed insulting to Islam, the   state news agency MENA said on Sunday.
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The Egyptian minister of religion decided that one official call to prayer would be broadcast live and carried by all of Cairo's mosques. Many of the faithful objected.
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Turkey's ruling AK Party and opposition MPs are to present a plan to ease the headscarf ban in universities.
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Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved on Saturday controversial constitutional changes aimed at lifting a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf in universities, the assembly's speaker said.
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Some 100 to 120 girls have defied a new law banning Islamic head scarves in classrooms and are in talks with school officials trying to convince them to remove the head coverings, Education Minister Francois Fillon said Wednesday.
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Egypt strengthened its ban on female genital cutting on Thursday by eliminating a legal loophole allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons, the health ministry said.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Concordia University's refusal to allow a speech by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak has sparked anger among some Jewish students who say freedom of expression is dead at the educational institution.
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Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party  and a key opposition party agreed on Thursday to cooperate to  lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in  universities, a move sure to anger the secular elite.
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Egypt's parliament has voted to expel a ruling National Democratic Party member from the assembly weeks after a court sentenced him to death for murder, the state's MENA news agency said on Monday.
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Lecturers have voted unanimously to boycott government plans to tackle extremism on campuses.
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Egypt warned against racism and intolerance in Canada after a young girl was expelled from a football tournament for insisting on wearing an Islamic headscarf, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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Some 100 to 120 girls have defied France's ban on Islamic head scarves in school, the education minister said Wednesday, and at least five boys from the country's tiny Sikh community have been barred from class for refusing to remove their turbans.
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Circumcision, as supporters call it, or female genital mutilation, as opponents refer to it, was suddenly a ferocious focus of debate in Egypt this summer.
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ISTANBUL, Feb 4 (IPS) - Turkey's Islamic-rooted governing party is  moving ahead with hotly contested constitutional amendments that  would lift the ban on headscarves at universities. Opponents see  it as a danger-laden step undermining the currently rigid secular  regime by introducing Islamic principles that may extend far  beyond higher learning.
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Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group is asserting itself as the main challenger to President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime, overshadowing secular reform groups a year after winning nearly one-fifth the seats in parliament.
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It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf Thursday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of ...