Muslim Women Speaking up

http://www.diversityinc.com/news/muslim-women-feminists/?utm_term=Muslim%20Feminists%

Hijab-wearing Soccer Team

It started as a friendly game of high school soccer in Aurora, Colorado, until Samah Aidah was benched for wearing her hijab. The refs deemed it “dangerous.” Their call came on the heels of a ruling from world soccer’s governing body, FIFA, which had lifted a seven-year ban on players wearing turbans and hijabs after a two-year trial period. Players had been allowed to wear “sport-specific head scarves” during that time as a test — no one was ever injured.
http://www.chatelaine.com/living/real-life-stories/wearing-hijabs-how-a-girls-soccer-team-changed-the-rules/?DFIX

Racism rears its ugly head in Montreal

The hijab-wearing woman was unfortunately was allegedly killed when her scarf got stuck on a subway was the target of hateful comments by some people in Montreal. This does not sound like Canada at all, land of the multicultural mosaic.   This is very sad day indeed.
Read this article please:


http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/04/quebecs_xenophobic_moment.html