Modeling agency helps demure Muslims keep it 'Underwraps'
(RNS) Ever since she was a little girl, Savannah Uqdah longed to pose for pictures and strut down a runway with flashbulbs bursting. But as an observant Muslim who didn't want to violate Islam's tenets on modesty, the aspiring model assumed that …
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Maryland school allows Muslim students to leave class to pray
Courts have for years tried to determine when accommodation crosses the line into unconstitutional endorsement of religion, said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. The question of accommodating the Muslim faith …
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Conquering a Muslim Myth
But it is equally true that distorted religious beliefs and traditions are largely prevalent among the non-indigenous Muslims of reverine areas. The thinking and talking heads of this particular group are mistaken in prejudging that family planning is …
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