If you are a woman who chooses to wear a hijab, do people treat you differently? Does the experience impact the way you feel about yourself? In a new Buzzfeed video, four female staffers — who don’t normally wear the head covering — try to answer those questions.
The traditional Muslim headscarf is sometimes viewed as oppressive and sexist in Western cultures. “I feel like it’s an American thing that if you see a woman with a hijab it’s like a symbol of oppression,” one woman said at the beginning of the video. By the end, however, the four women concluded that as long as a woman makes a personal choice to wear the hijab, no one has a right to judge that decision.
The women in the video spoke with Edina Lekovic, the director of policy and programming of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, to learn what the hijab stands for and how to put it on correctly. Lekovic also shared her personal experiences with the headscarf, telling the four women that the first time she wore her hijab a woman came up to her and said, “Honey you’re in America now, you don’t have to wear that here.”
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