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  • Me without my hijab

    06/08/2008 10:59:18 AM PDT · by rocksblues · 64 replies · 798+ views
    la times ^ | June 8, 2008 | Zainab Mineeia
    When I came to this country, I took off my hijab. It wasn't an easy decision. I worried at night that God would punish me for it. That's what I had been taught would happen, and it filled me with fear. I was 27, coming from my home country of Iraq to study in California. I hoped that by taking off the hijab I had been wearing for eight years, I would be able to maintain a low profile. In Baghdad, you keep a low profile to stay alive. But in the United States, I merely wanted not to be...