The internet came to the defense of a woman who refused to take off her hijab to please her friend's future in-laws at a wedding. To get the community's thoughts, the posted to Reddit's popular ...

Today, some Muslim women in America may wear the hijab as a way of asserting their pride in the face of Islamophobia. World Hijab Day, celebrated on Feb. 1, starting in 2013, came about through ...

Among women who wear the hijab, 41 percent believed that discrimination against Muslims is a major problem, while only 12 percent of women who do not wear the hijab did. Being visibly Muslim ...

For some Muslim women, wearing the hijab at puberty is common and out of respect, but their feelings change as they start to grow older. "I started wearing the hijab the summer before my 13th ...

How this Muslim American woman reclaimed the hijab in a post-9/11 world. Melanie Elturk turned to her faith and love of fashion to empower Muslim women. 5:04. By Deena Zaru.

During Hijab Day, many of Rawag’s peers asked her if Muslim women are oppressed. “No,” she told them. “Hijab is very liberating, and it is our choice to wear it.” ...

Finding sisterhood through hijab. The Muslim community encourages wearing the hijab, but sometimes for the wrong reasons, said Suliman. Oftentimes, Muslim women wear hijab because they feel pressured ...

The hijab is the head covering that some Muslim women choose to wear in public and the presence of non-related men. CAIR staff attorney Nadia Bayado led a discussion covering Muslim women’s ...

For Lent, Jessey Eagan decided she would would walk a mile in another woman’s headscarf, donning the religious head covering some Muslim women choose to wear, the hijab. Eagan, however, is not ...

Johara Shama, the Muslim woman who had her hijab forcibly removed, said she was held for 20 hours by police without access to her religious headwear. Now, Shama and the Council on American-Islamic ...

For some Muslim women, wearing a hijab can be a religious act but Muslim women’s clothing isn’t entirely about faith. It has been used – and is still used – as an assertion of identity.