Hijab is So Much More Than a Headscarf

The Muslims Are Coming! Except we were already here. I hate to break it to you, but we shall remain here even if you close all of the borders. We come from within and without because Islam is an idea—and though you can try to stifle or denigrate an idea, it ultimately thrives or dies on its own merit. Clearly, there is something drawing Americans to Islam. Though Muslims are the black sheep du jour, according to the latest Pew Research Center Demographic Portrait, we make up a mere 5.5 million of roughly 340 million Americans. That accounts for around 1.6% of the total population, yet if you were to go by media coverage, we are taking over! With this “takeover,” we are allegedly bringing all sorts of new and scary ideas to the United States. Second only to the terrifying specter of “Sharia law” is the hijab. If you have a pulse, you likely caught wind of the propaganda during the midterms, which warned that a vote for Abdel El-Sayed was a vote for Sharia law and mandatory hijab.

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