Learning Objective 1.2

NPR Article

• The focus of the article is that a few Muslim women discuss changes that need to be made within the Muslim community and stop the constant wearing of the Hijab.
• The women in the article are against wearing in Hijabs in public places. "When you wear hijab and you walk into a room, everyone notices you; everyone stares at you; everyone makes assumptions about you," says one Muslim women and feels like it's too much responsibility to represent a whole community and it's not mean't for everyone. "I was going through a lot of difficult things. Perhaps I thought taking it off would just be one less thing to worry about," she says. "I never took it off saying, like, it was the right decision. I just took it off because I wanted to do it. I wanted to see if my life would be different — if I would feel any better about the problems that I was going through."

Huffington Post

• The focus of the article is how women are slowly starting to move away from the Hijab since it's technically not a part of the Five Pillars of Islam./
• "Within Islam, perspectives on veiling vary. Middle East scholar Marnia Lazreg argues that hijab is not one of the pillars of Islam and that the resurgence of veiling has been systematically driven forward as a matter more of politics than piety." So basically these women claim that Hijabs are just a cultural thing and not actually a requirement by religious law.