In PJ Media I discuss the latest exercise in spurious Muslim victimhood: Last week, the Seattle Times published an op-ed by Washington state native and Cornell University doctoral student Hajer al-Faham titled: “Why I Stopped Wearing the Hijab.” Al-Faham was making no statement of a loss of faith in Islam, or of an awakening feminist […]
Muslima who is Cornell doctoral student claims she stopped wearing hijab “out of concern for my safety”
If Hajer Al-Faham was really harassed for wearing the hijab, that is a shame. There is no excuse for that kind of behavior. But women wearing hijabs are a quite common sight in American cities now. As I travel and when I am at home, I see women wearing hijabs pretty much every day, in […]