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TRENTON, Canada (AA): A Canadian university has launched a program to provide replacement hijab kits to women who are attacked and have their head coverings ripped off, the groups told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. The program is a joint effort by the student union of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group. In an email to Anadolu Agency, the two groups said the idea sprang from discussions concerning the attack on a mosque in Quebec City in January, when six Muslims at prayer were shot to death by a student from Laval University. The Dalhousie student union and the research group said many students expressed concern for their safety after the attack. The hope is the kits will raise awareness of the violence against Muslims and encourage victims to feel more comfortable and report the crimes. “In recognizing the increased incidents of violence towards women of colour on campuses across the country, we’...

LONDON (AA): Fast-food chain McDonald’s apologized after a video surfaced Friday on Twitter of a 19-year-old Muslim student being refused entry because of her headscarf. The video, posted by a friend of the woman who preferred to remain anonymous, shows a security guard asking her to remove her hijab. She refused and used her phone to film the incident, which took place at a north London branch of the restaurant on Seven Sisters Road in Holloway district. The short clip shows the security guard repeatedly asking her to remove the headscarf after blocking her from entering the restaurant. She asks the guard why she cannot enter the McDonald’s, but he says “it’s just a matter of taking it off “It’s not just a matter of taking it off. I wear this for religious reasons and I’m not ashamed of it, and I will stand in line and I will get the food I want because this isn’t OK,” she says. ‘It’s finally happening to me, like it has to so many hijabis,” she told The Guardian newspaper. “...