Hijab: Empowering, Never Restricting
I was reading the news on my laptop one morning and I came across an article about the hijabis, women who wear the hijab [Muslim
women's dress of modesty], who are participating in the Olympics.
Throughout the article, all the athletes stressed the fact that the hijab was
never constricting for them; in fact, more often than not it
unfalteringly proved to be empowering. Upon reading various quotes from
the women who expressed these sentiments, I smiled and thought back to
my personal experiences. The experiences of a young Muslim woman who
has been wearing the hijab for the past five years.