Amman

A woman wearing a hijab takes part in the first Amman International Marathon October 17, 2009. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN SPORT SOCIETY RELIGION)

Malaysia

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (R) listens to a guest during her family’s Eid al-Fitr open house in Sungei Siput, 350 km (217 miles) north of Kuala Lumpur, September 24, 2009.

Milan

Picture taken October 7, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

Tripoli

Women chat as they get together downtown after iftar (breaking fast) in Tripoli September 5, 2009. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (LIBYA SOCIETY RELIGION)

Washington D.C.

U.S. President Barack Obama introduces Bilquis Abdul-Qaadir during a dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, September 1, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES POLITICS RELIGION)

Palestine, Ramadan 2009

A Palestinian Muslim girl looks on while praying with her mother during the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Muslims throughout the world are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Iran

FILE – In this Tuesday, June 9, 2009 file photo, Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, waves to the people during a rally at Heidarnia stadium, during the final days of the election race in Tehran, Iran. In a part of the Muslim world where women are often perceived of as the repressed gender, images of Iranian women during and after the recent elections have catapulted Iran’s female demonstrators into the forefront of the country’s opposition movement. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Kenya

gee woman adjusts her headscarf at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya’s northeastern province June 5, 2009. The United Nations said on Friday that 96,000 Somalis had fled their homes during a month of battles between Islamist rebels and the government in Mogadishu. They have swelled the more than 1 million internal refugees in Somalia, which aid agencies say has one of the world’s worst — and most neglected — humanitarian crises. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (KENYA CONFLICT SOCIETY HEALTH)

In this file picture taken on July 2, 2005 a Turkish woman wearing a headscarf walks past posters sporting a woman veiled by the European Union flag in central Istanbul. Five years after a “big bang” took the European Union deep behind the former Iron Curtain, enlargement fatigue, worsened by the economic crisis, has gripped the bloc. Institutional hurdles and divisions over whether mainly Muslim Turkey should be allowed in have added to fallout from the financial turmoil to dampen enthusiasm for Europe, to the detriment of Balkan nations that want to join. (Photo credit should read CEM TURKEL/AFP/Getty Images)

Lebanon

Lebanese Muslim women wait for their turn to vote at a polling station in a southern Beirut Hezbollah stronghold on June 07, 2009. The Lebanese voted in a high-stakes general election pitting a Western-backed coalition against an Iranian-backed alliance led by the Hezbollah militant group. Polls opened at 0400 GMT but many rose at dawn, aiming to be first in line to cast their ballot for their choice of candidate in the 128-seat parliament which is equally divided between Christians and Muslims. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)