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March 24, 2011

Good News from Argentina and Tunisia Regarding Hijab

The hijab (muslim woman’s head dress) recently received new status in Argentina and Tunisia. In the South American country of Argentina, thanks to historic legislation passed by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her government, Muslim women are now allowed to wear the hijab in public places and in pictures for national ID cards. Across the Atlantic in the North African state of Tunisia, the hijab is also making news. Since the deposed dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his regime are no longer in power, Muslim women are reverting to wearing the hijab.

February 12, 2010

British Author Says Call for Ban on Islamic Clothing ‘Straight Out of Mein Kampf’

As the debate rages in the West over the clothing Muslim women should or should not wear, two articles representing opposite sides of the discussion were published in late January.

As the debate rages in the West over the clothing Muslim women should or should not wear, two articles representing opposite sides of the discussion were published in late January. The London Times’ Dominic Lawson wrote a timely piece in which he quoted Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf on the subject of the appearance of Jewish Germans, which was outlandish to him and had no place in the German society.

February 11, 2010

‘London Conference Must Explain Explosion of Drugs in Afghanistan’ - Iran Foreign Minister

“Before anything else, the U.K. must answer to the international community about the kind of management it has employed in Afghanistan that has raised illicit drug production from a few hundred tons to around 9,000,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in an interview with Farsnews and reported by Press TV.