Hullabaloo over the hijab
Dec. 14
She had evidently been arguing with her family for weeks over her desire to be like the other girls. She'd don her hijab at home and take it off before she got to school, sometimes changing her entire mode of dress. In recent weeks, she was living elsewhere and only went back to her home to collect some of her things. That is when, it is alleged, her father killed her. But it is everyone's business if an extremist parent is so adamant that his daughter wear an article of clothing that he is willing to do her harm, to take her life, if she disobeys. But this one - to wear or not to wear the hijab - rests too heavily on the heads of young girls.
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