And then there are the many cases of Muslim women in Britain who are harassed and/or beaten because they wear a hijab. The Dean of the Muslim College in London has issued a fatwa instructing Muslim women there to take off their hijab if they feel they may come to some harm because of wearing it...

"A leading British Muslim scholar has said that Muslim women living in the European country, where Muslims have been suffering mounting abuse and harassment since the July 7 London attacks, can take off their hijab.

'I have issued a fatwa that Muslim women in Britain have an Islamic right to take off their hijab at this point of time if attacked or fearing to be attacked,' Dr. Zaki Badawi, the Dean of the Muslim College in London, told IslamOnline.net over the phone from the British capital.

Badawi said they have registered more than 15,00 assault against hijab-clad women during the past three days only, in addition to a flood of threat letters."

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-07/28/article05.shtml