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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Muslim, and I do not wear hijab. My mother  does not wear hijab. My father never encouraged me to wear hijab. In fact, he was very against it. There is a classist element  in the Muslim world.[b] The Arab, East Asian, and African elites (with their fancy American educations and Euro vacations) look down on hijab as a working class symbol[/b]. I run away from any  man who says he wants me to wear hijab. I know many Muslim women who did not wear one at all when single, but started wearing it after marriage and a first kid at the request of a husband. It makes me sad because I know they miss dressing up or down the way they used to.  [/quote]

My parents never forced Hijab on me as my own mother was not wearing it until her 50's. My parents did not grow up in religious families and didn't understand religion fully till adulthood. I personally, never look down at any woman wearing hijab. In fact, I always thought of such women as brave souls. I wonder if you look down at Hijabi doctors, lawyers, university professors, scientists...do you perceive them as a working class with blue collar job because of their hijab?!

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