The fight against Islamism is the rationale behind Marine Le Pen’s RN party, but research data suggests that head-covering in keeping with Islamic tradition is not politically motivated.
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After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.
Negative portrayals of Muslims shape public attitudes and lead to increased discrimination, often resulting in hate crimes and psychological harm.
Iran’s young population is educated and connected to the world: even state violence cannot deny their freedom in the long run.
A wedding video which has gone viral in Iran has highlighted the country’s inequality and exposed hypocrisy at the core of the ruling regime.
The Iranian state seemingly perceives dissenting women not merely as disobedient citizens but as bodies that have escaped control and refused their assigned status of possession.
Despite a finding by the Québec Superior Court that Bill 21 has a cruel and dehumanizing impact on Muslim women, the law has survived. Now, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear challenges to it.
Iranian Ahou Daryaei has recently joined the ranks of women who have used their bodies to challenge the physical and symbolic violence to which they are subjected.
The Taliban have enacted laws that violate human rights since they returned to power. But a new edict goes further.
Laïcité, which historically upheld individual freedom, denies minority rights today, as seen in the ban on French athletes wearing hijabs at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Canadian government’s refusal to include a description of anti-Palestinian racism sends the message that the struggles of Palestinians don’t matter.
As France enshrines abortion rights in its constitution, the country’s ban on wearing religious symbols in schools turns 20 years old.
Around the world, Muslim girls who wear hijabs are experiencing unique forms and heightened rates of gender and race-based violence.
Iranian women are still pressing for women’s rights and equality, just in quieter forms, including not wearing mandatory hair covers. Imprisoned activists are also leaking messages to others.
People are gearing up for a potential resurgence of protests, while the state is preparing to suppress any sign of dissent.
Iran’s savage use of executions and prisoner rape has failed to quell the “women, freedom, life” movement.
Narratives that pit secular protesters against a religious regime do not necessarily explain the protests in Iran or what they are calling for.
Increasing numbers of Iranians want a government of the people, not a monarchy or an Islamic theocracy.
Iranian women have often used images of actions such as singing and dancing unveiled to show what freedom means to them and to protest the Islamic Republic’s gender oppression.
Morality police first appeared in Iran soon after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But similar forces were present in parts of the Middle East even prior to the date.
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PhD Candidate, Feminist and Gender Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Middle East Politics & International Relations at Keele University, Keele University
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Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies and Gender, Northwestern University
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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