Wearing a hijab in America today requires sustained courage and self-defense.

Evidence

It can take a certain amount of courage to sport a hijab in the United States today, courage that is not lacking in Yasmin. Nor is she a stranger to a good fight. As a high-school student, she found that her religious beliefs brought her into a long conflict with the school’s establishment, a battle that began in September 2000 and ended only years later, thanks to a little help from Michelle Pfeiffer. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 341