the hijab will remain more of a political statement than a religious one.

If a woman in Sudan who refuses to wear hijab faces flogging, her civil liberties are in peril.

I’ll wager that most American Muslims — men and women — agree with Abdullah Antepli, a Muslim chaplain at Duke University, who notes that this woman’s case is less about Sharia law than it is of an autocratic society (such as Sudan), where “law is only applied to the poor and most vulnerable.”

After all, in Islam, there is no coercion….