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[quote=Anonymous]I notice that the hijab defenders always say its choice, and that choice should be respected.  Some do acknowledge is not a choice in some countries.

But I have yet to find an Islamist site that says wearing the hijab is a woman's choice.  Rather, they pretty much all say that it is a requirement for Mulsim women women set down in the Quran, using the same verses that the authors of the article have deconstructed.

The message of these sites is clear: if you are a Muslim woman, you must wear a hijab.

These are the sites that Muslims of good faith go to for guidance, and this is what they are reading about what they must do.  Many do not realize that most of these sites are sponsored by people who wish to spread an extreme form of Islam.  So I do not blame women who rely on these sites for coming to the conclusion they must wear a headscarf.  Others are fully aware of the hidden agenda like Tashfeen Malik and are  totally committed to the extremism and the underlying political reasons for which it is pushed.

So we have hijab wearers who are sincere in their faith, but often misinformed by those pushing an agenda they are unaware of; women wearing the scarf as a show of identity with a particular group but who may not otherwise be particularly religious; women covering themselves because their families or husbands or the laws of the country in which they live require them to do so, and those who wear the hijab and possibly the niqab as an outward sign of their commitment to a political Islam, often of a supremacist form.

Not all of the reasons involve a woman's choice, and some of these reasons are incompatible with American values.

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