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[quote=Anonymous]I am a non Muslim married to a Muslim. I have conflicting thoughts on it.  My step daughters wear them now and I watch as I meet them for lunch or something, how others look at them, and it's not kind. Here in DC.  One has been called ISIS bride at her Fairfax County school. My husband who is Muslim and begged his daughters not to wear hijab also worries what people think of him as he walks with his daughters in public. He assumes they assume he forced them to wear it.

So while I respect the idea of wearing hijab, and understand both its religious meaning as well as the fact it helps women feel identified as a Muslim (to other Muslims, in a non-Halim country), I don't like the way many American non Muslims perceive it.  I am in the unenviable position of being a blond American-born white woman, in that many white people share their bigoted comments with me assuming I feel similarly. Then I have to tell them to please stop. I'm married to an arab Muslim.

And read this. My husband desperately wants to move to Frederick but this gives me serious pause.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-home-that-looks-perfect-until-bigotry-rears-its-ugly-head/2016/07/04/f12e5216-420c-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html[/quote]

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