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[quote=Anonymous]Most Muslim women I know are outraged by the article.    It equates hijab with political Islam. While that is one component of hijab for some, it doesn't tell the whole story, and is misleading at best, IMO.

Many Muslim women choose not to wear it.  And shocker, many Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf, despite pressure NOT to.  I talked in another thread how my step daughter is being called ISIS bride at her high school in Fairfax County.   My husband and her mother both begged her not to wear a headscarf.   She's too young in the culture that her parents come from.  But she chooses to anyway.

And I've never heard any Muslim woman, before this op/ed, say the hijab is primarily forced upon women by "political Islam."  There are so many Muslim women out there, particularly in the U.S., wearing a headscarf that have NOTHING to do with political Islam.  They do it for so many other reasons.

Here's an opposing view, that to me, shows more of the nuances associated with the choice (because it is a choice in America) to either wear or not wear a headscarf:

"But it shouldn’t occur in Muslim women calling out others for wearing the headscarf, or saying that we need to “clarify to those in universities, the media and discussion forums that in exploring the “hijab,” they are not exploring Islam, but rather the ideology of political Islam as practiced by the mullahs, or clerics, of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State.”
My hijab is not born of a so-called “political Islam.”
It’s born of my heart and mind."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/muslimahnextdoor/2015/12/please-do-if-you-want-wear-the-headscarf-in-the-name-of-interfaith-solidarity/

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