Turkey Drops Hijab Ban

 Amazing how this is news from a Muslim country. Having a similar ban on hijabs would be unimaginable in Canadian universities, and rightfully so. Article from the Toronto Star:
ANKARA–Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and a key opposition party agreed yesterday to co-operate to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities.
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My kind of feminism

An article I wrote for the school paper. Looking back, I probably should have used the term ‘equity’ as opposed to ‘equality’, because while Islam recognizes that men and women have different roles which in technicality would make equality impossible, neither is elevated above the other. That’s equity.

The senseless murder of Aqsa Parvez has once [...]