Hijab Politics

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The Toronto Star reports today on the tragic story of a young Canadian girl who was killed by her own father because she refused to wear a hijab to school:

A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder after an attack in a Mississauga home…. Friends at the victim’s school said she feared her father and had argued over her desire to shun the hijab, a traditional shoulder-length head scarf worn by females in devout Muslim families…. Pal Ebonie Mitchell, 16, and other friends said Aqsa still wore the hijab to school last year, but rebelled against dressing in it this fall. They said she would leave home wearing the traditional garment and loose clothing, but would often change into tighter garments at school. She would change back for the bus trip home.

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