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Hijab... American Experience By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff
Business? “But when I came back to Washington I did notice a couple of stares from the nonMuslim community, I knew they might not be the same.”
WASHINGTON – Sara Uddin smiles as she adjusts her black hijab after performing Friday prayers with scores other Muslim girls and women.
Sara says that though she does not receive any real attacks because of her hijab, negative viewpoints are something she certainly faces.
Now it is time to go out again, and Sara is always ready for any questions, stares or even negative misconceptions about the small piece of cloth that covers her head.
“I feel that it is a good thing whenever I get comments because it gets me to explain that this is who I am and this is why I do it.”
“I want to defeat all stereotypes with my hijab and the only way to do it is to speak out about it,” she told IslamOnline. net.
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Sara, 22, has been wearing hijab for nearly 4 years now.
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Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations.
to be home to nearly 7-8 million Muslims. No Barrier For Amina Saleh, 24, hijab has never been a barrier to reach any of her goals in life. “I work in public health now, and I meet scores of people on daily basis. I never felt that my hijab makes me less competent in their eyes.” Amina, who now lives in Maryland with her parents and two sisters, was not wearing hijab when she first came to the US 13 years ago with her family. But when she did at the age of 20, she did not feel much difference in the way people treated her.
“When I first wore it I was in high school in San Diego, California, and it was great. The place is so much diverse there and people are exposed to different cultures and different faiths,” she recalled.
“I am American, I was born here and I have friends here,” says Sara, who works in a bank, confidently. “And I am a Muslim and these are the rules of Islam and I am sticking to them.”
But Jasmin Ullah, from Herndon, Northern Virginia, believes there are many stereotypes about hijab in America, and it is hard to fight them sometimes.
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