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Harvard’s Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) and elementary school slumber parties now share something in common—no boys allowed. As of Jan. 28, only women can enter the Quad’s primary athletic facility on Mondays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on...
Last Saturday, the Turkish Parliament voted to overturn a long-standing ban on Islamic headscarves in universities—a ban that has long protected the secularism of the classroom from the growing influence of religious conservatives. Tens of thousands protested the repeal, arguing that a repeal on the ban...
Denmark was awash with cartoons this week, as 17 newspapers republished controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed to protest an alleged plot to murder a cartoonist. Wednesday's media defiance came a day after Denmark's security police (PET) arrested three men on suspicion of planning to murder one of...
Such a ruling may well be in the offing, since most members of the high court are known to be staunch secularists. The army, many academics and the main opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) have argued against lifting the ban. The change "aims to render the principle of secularism...
Prime Minister Erdogan, an often blustery and impatient politician, has done little to ease the tension. "If [the headscarf] is indeed a political symbol, does that make it a crime to wear it? Is wearing a symbol a crime?," he said at the start of this debate last month. To...