http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab_by_country#United_States
United States
See also:
Islam in the United States
The people of the United States have a firm
1st Amendment protection of
freedom of speech from government interference that explicitly includes clothing items, as described by
Supreme Court cases such as
Tinker v. Des Moines.
[123] As such, a ban on Islamic clothing is considered presumptively invalid by U.S. socio-political commentators such as
Mona Charen of
National Review.
[124] Journalist Howard LaFranchi of the
Christian Science Monitor has referred to "the traditional American respect for different cultural communities and religions under the broad umbrella of universal freedoms" as forbidding the banning of Islamic dress. In his
prominent June 2009 speech to the Muslim World in
Cairo,
President Barack Obama called on
the West "to avoid dictating what clothes a Muslim women should wear", and he elaborated that such rules involve "hostility" towards Muslims in "the pretense of
liberalism".
[125]
A 2010 survey by the
Pew Global Attitudes Project found that the vast majority of Americans – two out of three of those polled – oppose banning Islamic clothing.
[63]
Muslim women face some issues regarding their cultural differences with
American society. For example, most gyms, fitness clubs, and other workout facilities in the United States are mixed-sex. So
exercise without a hijab or burka can be difficult for some observant Muslim women. Maria Omar, director of media relations for the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America (IFANCA), has advised Muslim women to avoid these complexes entirely. Some women decide to wear something
colloquially known as the "sports hijab". Similarly, Muslim women may feel uncomforable around other women with traditionally revealing American outfits, especially during the summer "
Bikini season". An outfit colloquially known as the
burqini allows Muslim women to swim without displaying any significant amount of skin.
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