By Zaina Arafat “Salam Alaikum, everyone!” Yasemin Kanar, known to her fans as YazTheSpaz, uses the traditional Muslim welcome to greet her 68,000 subscribers at the start of almost every video on her YouTube channel. I’m watching as she films a tutorial on how to achieve a simple, stylish look Continue Reading
Kayla Mueller in Captivity: Courage, Selflessness as She Defended Christian Faith to ISIS Executioner ‘Jihadi John’
By JAMES GORDON MEEK, MEGAN CHRISTIE, BRIAN EPSTEIN and BRIAN ROSS American hostage Kayla Mueller was tortured, verbally abused, forced into slave labor for ISIScommanders in Syria and raped by the group's top leader, but her fellow hostages say she never surrendered hope, she Continue Reading
Factbox: Troubled Europe debates burqas, niqabs and burkinis
Restrictions on face and full-body veils are back in the spotlight in parts of Europe after some French cities banned the burkini swimsuit, saying the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies laws on secularism. A spate of attacks against civilians claimed by militant Continue Reading
France’s ‘Burkini’ Bans Are About More Than Religion or Clothing
By Amanda Taub WASHINGTON — There is something inherently head-spinning about the so-called burkini bans that are popping up in coastal France. The obviousness of the contradiction — imposing rules on what women can wear on the grounds that it’s wrong for women to have to obey rules about what Continue Reading
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