A Montreal woman upset that Muslim girls wearing hijabs had to choose between their religion and sports has come up with a solution.

Elham Seyed Javad, 26, has designed a new type of sports hijab, after learning that some girls were forced to give up their love of sports because officials said their hijabs posed a safety risk. [More]

Rowaida Abdelaziz doesn't want your pity.

She doesn't want your frosty public stares; the whispers behind her back; the lament that she's been degraded by her father.

What the Muslim high school senior wants you to understand is that she doesn't wear the hijab, the head scarf worn by Muslim women, because she is submissive.

"It represents beauty to me," says Abdelaziz, the 17-year-old daughter of two Egyptian parents living in Old Bridge, New Jersey. [More]