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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nike, Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad and other Muslim women athletes have helped kickstart a new discussion about allowing Hijab to be worn in competition. Muslim Women Changing Sports By Wearing Hijab ...
Muslim woman forced to take off hijab for police mugshot or stay in jail, lawsuit says By Julia Marnin. August 31, 2023 1:25 PM. Sophia Johnston says deputies forced her to take off her hijab ...
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.” ...
Two Muslim women, including Shenai Aini who’s seen in this image, are suing Orange County sheriff’s deputies after they were forced to remove their hijabs, in violation of their religious ...
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced a $90,000 settlement with a Muslim woman who was denied the right to wear her hijab during a jail stay last fall, as well as a new ...
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 ...
Muslim women in the Indian state of Karnataka are seeking to overturn a policy that allows schools to ban the hijab, in a case that has polarized the country.