It may be more visible than ever today at McMaster University, where a professor organized a Wear My Hijab day. Women, whether Muslim or not, were invited to wear a head scarf all day to show support for those who regularly wear it…Via Sweetness& Light.
Yasmeen Khattav, a politics student at McMaster, wears a hijab and supports the Wear My Hijab event, adding that she has never felt any pressure not to wear her head scarf on campus. She said that, while women are sometimes forced to wear coverings abroad, most do so by choice. She said that to the extent coercion occurs, it should be blamed on the culture of the offending country, not on the Islamic faith.
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