Sharon Otterman, a reporter for The New York TimesMK/I> penned a thoughtful article on Sandra Ibrahim. The middle school student’s tentative steps toward wearing hijab have been met with derision, teasing and hazing.

This writer wonders whether this Arab custom from the seventh century really has a place in 21st century Queens, where it serves only to stigmatize Muslim females by marking them quite visibly as “different”.

Read more about it here: “Balancing Islam and Middle School in Queens“