From: Lifting The Veil: Muslim Women Explain Their Choice by Asma Khalid

For centuries, Islamic scholars have said that Muslim women must cover their hair. But many Muslim women don’t.

There are about 1 million Muslim women in America; 43 percent of them wear headscarves all the time, according to the Pew Research Center. About 48 percent — or half a million women — don’t cover their hair, the survey found.

The split between women who’ve covered and women who’ve never done so has existed for decades. But now a generation of women is taking off the headscarf, or hijab.

Although the scarf is a public, sometimes even political symbol, women say the choice to unveil is highly private, emotional and religious.

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