Entering the dressing room of a Turkish bath in Istanbul this past August, I was interested to see dignified hijab-wearing ladies unveiling in preparation for their baths. It had seemed to me that the scarves were permanently affixed to these Muslim women’s heads, and yet here they were, nonchalantly removing them.
This morning at the gym, a modestly-dressed hijabi whom I had spotted earlier working out with the hand weights came up next to me at the sinks as I was blow-drying my hair and slowly unwrapped her veil. In Istanbul this sort of sighting was part of the exotic local color, right up there with the calls to prayer and the mosques on every street corner. Seeing the exact same thing this morning in Boston was a bit more surprising.
I am doing a directed study on Islam in America this semester, and my Istanbul flashback this morning really drove home for me one of the key themes we’ve been talking about: It is a fact that Muslims are no longer exotic and distant, only to be found abroad; they are a part of our American religious landscape. The Muslim population in America is growing and we women should probably get used to seeing un-veilings in the locker room.
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