The Hijab

While physical Olympic sports such as rugby and taekwondo allow Muslim women to wear the headscarf in competition, football, the world's most popular sport ... who at 36 is the youngest member of FIFA's all-powerful executive committee.  

Muslim women are being driven away from soccer by FIFAs ban of the hijab, with more likely to follow if rulemakers fail to reverse the decision at a meeting next month, Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein of Jordan told Reuters.  

A senior professor of a reputed medical college in Pakistan's most populous Punjab province has received threats after he asked a student not to wear the 'hijab' or headscarf in his classes. Shaharyar, the head of the oncology department of King Edward ...  

to change the headscarf ban during its upcoming London meeting. “Many women footballers in Asia wear headscarves,” Jilong, a member of FIFA’s executive committee, said in a statement. “I would like to request the IFAB to favourably ...  

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Football Confederation has urged soccer's world governing body to approve a headscarf with safety features for use by Islamic female players. FIFA banned the hijab or headscarf in 2007 for safety reasons, a move ...