The hijab is not a symbol of gender oppression – but those who choose to wear it risk Islamophobia

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par Irene Zempi, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Nottingham Trent University
Amina Easat-Daas, Lecturer in Politics, De Montfort University

In a recent New York Times podcast on the alleged “Trojan Horse” Islamisation of schools in Birmingham, England, a Muslim woman who worked in one of the schools under discussion relays what happened when she started wearing the hijab. She had just got married and non-Muslim colleagues interpreted her head covering…