Disney restaurant hostess sues for permission to wear hijab

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0819-disney-hijab-20100819,0,5537139.story Looks to be another casualty in the war against Civil Rights. Boudlal informed her supervisor she wanted to wear the hijab and they said they would check with corporate, but she never received a response. Later on, Disney’s costume department went as far as fitting her for a hijab designed to work with her costume, but…

Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com

Blowback: UC Irvine’s draconian overreaction to a protest against Israel – latimes.com. Students across the country are monitoring events at UC Irvine as pro- Israel groups try to reestablish their deterrence capacity on American campuses. After a 4-month-long investigation, UC Irvine’s administration last week announced an unprecedented recommendation to suspend for one year the Muslim Student…