A group of Muslim women in France says they have a dream—a dream to “have fun in public swimming pools like all other citizens.” That’s why they defied a burkini ban at a swimming pool in Grenoble, ...

Stuyvesant High School has eliminated girls-only swimming classes, forcing female Muslim students to sacrifice the modesty their religion demands if they want to earn a prestigious diploma. Stuyvesant ...

For some Muslim women in France, it's all but impossible to swim in a public pool and stay true to their beliefs. Many stay covered as part of their faith with garments such as hijabs, which cover the ...

PARIS – A Muslim woman garbed in a head-to-toe swimsuit – dubbed a “burquini” – may have opened a new chapter in France’s tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code. Officials ...

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The biggest swimming pool in Russia's Muslim-majority North Caucasus region has banned women, prompting anger from rights activists and others who have accused the sports ...

PRIVACY curtains have been installed at a new public pool in western Sydney so Muslim women can swim without being seen by other pool users. The lightweight curtain runs around the glass walls of the ...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — A Colorado city is promising to revise its swimsuit rules after a Muslim woman was turned away from its recreation center pool for wearing an Islamic dress over a shirt and ...

The staff at a public pool in Wilmington, Delaware, recently ejected modestly dressed Muslim children who ran afoul of an unpublicized and possibly nonexistent rule against cotton swimwear. Kids ...

Sara, 31, was a champion swimmer back in her home country of Iran. She swam three times a week and would go to competitions. Iran also had separate public pools for men and women, in keeping with ...

PARIS -- A Muslim woman garbed in a head-to-toe swimsuit - dubbed a "burquini" - may have opened a new chapter in France's tussle between religious practices and its stern secular code. Officials ...

For some Muslim women in France, it’s all but impossible to swim in a public pool and stay true to their beliefs. Many stay covered as part of their faith with garments such as hijabs, which cover the ...