Parents Flak NY School after Hijab Solidarity Event

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American Muslim Women-Reuters

Somalilandsun – Officials at Rochester’s World School of Inquiry in New York spent last week fielding dozens of calls from parents angry about a “World Hijab Day” event that encouraged girls to wear the Muslim religious head covering.

In the foreforont of these angry reactions that came after the school held an event in solidarity with World Hijab Day was Muslim human rights activist Asra Nomani pleading, “Do not wear a headscarf in ‘solidarity’ with the ideology that most silences us.” Continue World Hijab Day Debuts in American Schools