The case was brought by an Arkansas Muslim prisoner, Abdul Muhammad, who sought to wear a half-inch beard in compliance with his religious beliefs. This request would have been granted in most ...

Between coercion and free choice? Hizbul-Islam militants in Somalia ordered men in Mogadishu this week to grow their beards and trim their moustaches. "Anyone found violating this law will face ...

(RNS) In the first religion case of the Supreme Court season, a Muslim prisoner asks for the right to grow a very short beard. (RNS) In some ways, the case of the Muslim prisoner who wants to grow ...

And Twitter is littered with references to the Wisconsin Republican's new "Muslim beard." Okay... Listen, whether or not you like the man or his politics, this sort of rhetoric is absurd.

The court came down decisively on the side of a Muslim prisoner whose beard had been deemed potentially dangerous by the Arkansas Department of Correction. Growing a beard, the justices said ...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) Thursday reinstated a Muslim police officer who was suspended for not shaving his beard, according to court documents filed by the city. The department also ...

The Taliban has prohibited barbers in several provinces from shaving or trimming beards, claiming that the edict aligns with ...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices appeared united Tuesday as they picked apart prison rules in Arkansas that allow full afros and mustaches but no beards in a case about a Muslim inmate’s ...

Virginia’s prison system did not violate a Muslim inmate’s religious rights when it refused to allow him to grow a 1/8-inch beard, which he believes is required by his religion, a federal ...

The city has settled a class action lawsuit alleging that NYPD limits on beard length violated Muslim cops’ civil rights, officials confirmed. The Jan. 2 settlement stems from a June 2016 ...

(RNS) — ‘Nobody should be forced to choose between their faith and their job,’ said Hannah Mullen, a staff attorney for CAIR. (RNS) — When Devin Brooks reported for training in West ...

The officer’s increment was reduced by two years as punishment for maintaining a beard. Hearing a petition filed by one G Abdul Khadar Ibrahim, Justice L Victoria Gowri said Khadar, a Muslim ...