Word: headscarfs
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...history of Afghanistan. When the Taliban forced all women to wear the burka, that long all-encompassing cloak that hides women's bodies, faces and identities, Shahnaz bought the cheapest she could find, figuring that the law would not last. Though she had always made do with a simple headscarf in deference to Islamic modesty, as a kid she had played dress ups in her mother's burka "so it was not difficult for me to get used to it again." The law stuck and wearing a burka became an uncomfortable habit: "in the summer you sweated in there...
...weekly congregational prayer when four white males approached her and said, “What are you doing here? Go home to your own country,” according to the MBTA police. When the student tried to leave, the males tried to take off her headscarf, or hijab...
...MBTA Police Department is investigating an alleged hate crime that occurred Friday afternoon, when a Muslim Harvard graduate student wearing a traditional headscarf was verbally and physically harassed after she exited the Harvard Square T stop...
...weekly congregational prayers, the Harvard graduate student left the Harvard Square MBTA station and was entering the “Pit” area when four white males approached her, according to the police log. She was wearing a hijab, a traditional Muslim headscarf...
...discussed a similar case of a schoolgirl who was denied permission to take an exam wearing a headscarf...