I see women in my area of Houston every day who are wearing Muslim type scarves. It makes me angry and I would like to jerk their scarves off and give the women a good talking to. “You dumb butt, resist this kind of treatment. You are in the USA, you don't have to do this” But, of course, I don't do anything but sneer at them.
My husband needed a home nurse a couple of years ago. She was a muslim about 30 years old, single, supporting her self and she wore a scarf completely covering her hair. I wanted to ask her why she did that, but I didn't so I am not about to confront a stranger on the street. The muslim nurse was as nice and kind and gentle as any I have ever met. She also was doctoring a man who was not her husband. Go figure.
When I was in college a fully covered arabic woman came up to the place I worked on campus. I asked her why she wore that since she was in the USA and could were anything she liked. Her reply was, “When you believe in something, and believe that Allah has set rules down for you to live by you live by them. I wear it because I want to please Allah.”
I replied that it's a good thing that she is in a country that freedom of religion. She looked at me strangely and walked away.