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How to use the word hijab in a Sentence?

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The freedom of choice is the biggest thing for me, i’m still able to practice my religion, to continue covering (wearing her hijab) and get an education. I was inspired by these opportunities. I truly love this country.

Bibi Bahrami

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It takes the value of women to the lowest, and I therefore have a hatred for the hijab.

Mohamed Kouka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This issue really hurt the collective conscience of the Iranian people, because for many years the Iranian people had suffered, and one of the main sufferings was that half the population was constantly being harassed because of their gender, because of their body, i do believe that both in Iran and in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijab is being used as a means of exerting violence and meting out violence against women, bruising and hurting women, and then covering them in a veil to hide all the bruises and the hurt.

Iran Social Media Iranian couple

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The hijab is part of me, at the end of the day, it’s a sport and I ’m not a model. I ’m an athlete and people should focus more on my athleticism rather than my clothes.

Doaa Elghobashy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea is to fight the hijab as a political tool used and promoted by Islamist militants, if you believe that the Islamist political project is indeed totalitarian, then you have to fight its distinctive signs. The same way you would ban the swastika in the public sphere, as is the case already.

Ludwig Knoepffler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Iranian athletes such as Shirin Shirzad and Shiva Amiri had to flee to the West and wrote about their experiences in the #LetUsTalk Campaign, experiences such as discrimination, compulsory hijab, and even assault and sexual harassment.

Shirin Shirzad

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've had a conversation with the Speaker and I'm very confident that she will take decisive action next week, as you know, when I first got to Congress, I was worried that I wasn't going to be allowed to be sworn in because there was a ban on the hijab. She promised me that she would take care of it. She fulfilled that promise. She's made another promise to me that she will take care of this, and I believe her.

Ilhan Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We talk a lot about gratitude and especially this time of year. This truly exemplifies how grateful that family is. a hijab … [Muzhdah] said, I'm not going to do that. I want to be more free. I'm going to live in freedom.

Sarah Verardo -RRB- Johnny

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A hijab … [Muzhdah] said, I'm not going to do that. I want to be more free. I'm going to live in freedom.

Sarah Verardo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm raised Catholic, and I thought that (the hijab) was a control mechanism of men over women, she had me thinking it's not different than praying a rosary.

Keith Allman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I noticed that they have already condemned me, i decided not to wear hijab because it won't change anything.

Shohreh Bayat

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think officials were instructed to be looking for certain things. At the starting line, when we got there 3 to 5 minutes before the race, the official notified me that I needed paperwork for an exemption for her hijab. I didn't have one, he notified me she would be disqualified. I had the option to ask her to remove it or not run.

Jerry Flowers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Think about it : Ilhan Omar wears a hijab.

Jeanine Pirro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I want a young Christian girl who wears a cross to be able to show it, i want a Jewish boy who wears a kippa to be able to show it. And I do not want a ban on the hijab.

Education Minister Torbjorn Roe Isaksen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I spoke to Mr. Hijab ... he will respond to de Mistura and Ban Ki-moon this morning, if I understand their position, they say yes to negotiations.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You wouldn't be able to tell I'm a Muslim if I didn't wear hijab.

Miriam Amer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

She was wearing hijab, black scarf. It was strange for us to see our aunt like that. When she lived here she dressed very well. She wore gold and diamonds. This dramatic change, it was very strange to see her covered all over.

Raisat Suleimanov

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Everyone respected her, she was very religious and never left her home without covering her face with a hijab, we never heard anything about her being mentally ill. She was about to graduate.

Mirwais Afizi

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Although in some ways I do stand out, such as the hijab I wear on my head, the head covering, there's still so many ways I feel so embedded in the fabric that is our culture.

The Abu-Salhas

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The minute our daughter moved in after her honeymoon, she just got married Dec. 27, the minute she moved in and he saw her wearing the hijab and her friends came to visit and her sister went to visit, he began to pick up arguments over everything, my daughter Yosur, the newlywed, told us two or three weeks ago that she felt that neighbor hated them for how they looked and who they were.

Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our goal is to foster global religious tolerance and understanding through hijab awareness. Many women get discriminated (against) simply because they choose to wear the hijab, hopefully, this event will make people realize that women who wear the hijab are just like anyone else. They're not oppressed or are forced to wear it. They just simply want to follow their faith by being modest, just like Mary (mother of Jesus).

Nazma Khan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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