“Over the last several years, there's been this growing unease, feeling uncomfortable in my own skin,” the surgeon says. “And that is something that's new.... I was feeling less and less welcome in my own community, and more and more like there was a target on my back.”
And so, like a number of Muslim women this year, Elmadhun made the wrenching personal decision to stop wearing her headscarf.
“You feel fear, it's human nature,” says Mariana Aguilera, who converted to Islam 10 years ago and now runs The Demureist, a Queens-based website for women of all faiths looking for fashion that embraces a conservative lifestyle, including Muslim women wearing hijab.
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