by Mitchell Willetts | OU Daily | Feb 22, 2017 | In The News
For pre-nursing freshman Rand Salous, God is everything. The Quran asks that she be modest, and so, like millions of Muslim women, she wears a hijab. The covering brings her peace, she said, but often others see her and feel pity. “I feel like some people may...
by Rachael Revesz | Independent | Aug 31, 2016 | In The News
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has thanked a library chain in Oklahoma for using a picture of a Muslim woman in its advertising following a resident’s complaint that the library was “promoting Islam” with taxpayers’ money. CAIR has...
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK.com | Aug 30, 2016 | In The News
An image used as part of a Pioneer Library System promotional campaign has come under fire from a Norman man who says it promotes the religion of Islam. Chad Grensky said he recently voiced his concerns to a leader with the Norman-based library system after seeing an...
by Haley Davis | OU Daily | Apr 2, 2013 | In The News
Self-identified as Muslim by religion, Arab by race and American by culture, an OU alumna cleared misconceptions about Islamic women’s rights at a question and answer session Monday. Malaka Elyazgi is an Islamic woman activist who researches women’s rights, said Ersin...