hijab

 1. Pluralhijabs: a type of neck and hair covering used by some Muslim women

Without sacrificing comfort, quality, or modesty, the website provides Muslim women with a wide selection of hijabs for all occasions, including sporting events.

—Sara Holzman

Every woman has a different motive for wearing a hijab, but many people mistake these for coercion, according to Mohammad Zal. Muslim women wear hijabs to demonstrate their modesty and piety.

This is Christine Fernando. In the street, women are burning their headscarves. They protest not being able to decide whether or not to wear the hijab, not the hijab itself. —Roya Hakakian

The French Senate voted 160-143 on Tuesday in support of a bill that would amend the country's Sports Code to forbid athletes from wearing religious symbols, like hijabs, at sporting events, public swimming pools, and bathing areas. This is part of a contentious ten-year attempt to restrict the public expression of religion.

—Upadhya Ananya

The conflict started when teachers at a girls' college preparation school in Udupi, a city in southwest Karnataka, forbade a number of Muslim pupils wearing hijabs from entering their classrooms.Sameer Yasir

2: a collection of Islamic morality and modesty-related ideals and customs, particularly those pertaining to self-coverage (such as donning a hijab) "… hijab is not just about exterior appearances; it is also about noble speech, dignified and upright conduct, and modesty."

—brochure, cited in The Chronicle of Houston

"Since most of my clientele are Muslim, some of them will be wearing headscarves and dressing modestly in observance of the hijab, a religious observance."

—Fatin Jarara Farooqi and other volunteers are dressed in traditional American volunteer garb, which consists of yellow T-shirts with a logo on them. However, the women wear hijabs, which cover their necks and hair with scarves, while the men also wear skullcaps.

—Harry BruiniusStreet scenes, meanwhile, could only be shot with extreme caution, and usually only scenes involving the hijab, the veil for women whose removal has become a symbol in the fight for liberation and modernism.

In universities, students are monitored for the mandatory hijab by security forces based inside colleges.

In an interview with The Republic days after the arrest, Al-Sayyed noted that many Muslim women wear the hijab as an expression of modesty, privacy, and piety.

Another woman, in a white hijab, spoke rapidly and quietly about the Middle East, while Harris nodded.