trying2learn
Junior Member
I love being around my husbands family, they are very kind to me. I went to visit my sister-in-law yesterday so our children could play together, and she was telling me that her husband (my brother-in-law) refused to go anywhere with her if she did not take off her hijab, in which her response was to take it off!! My other sister-in-law lives in Jordan with her husband and he told her it was ok to wear hijab while in Jordan but once they come back to the states she had to "leave the hijab in Jordan". I do not understand, all of them are "born" muslims, why are the men making their wives remove their hijabs and dress more "american"? My husband likes the fact that I cover up now when I get dressed but he told me the same thing that his brother told his wife, that he will not go out with me if I wear a hijab, and he said I look like a "gypsy" when I wear one. He laughed at me when he saw me in a hijab, this hurt my feelings, and his daughter laughed at me too. I told him he should not have laughed especially in front of his daughter because of the difficulty we are having trying to get her to even learn about Islam. But anyway, could anyone help me with this topic? I do not know what to do, I think my husbands family will laugh at me for wearing a hijab, (my husband said I do not look right wearing one, that I am too "white", and that only women who are tan look ok with hijab) to which I responded you are not supposed to be looking at the women in that way! I am the only "white" girl in a family full of arab muslims, and they already kind of single me out because I come from a different culture than they do, and I am still learning their culture without losing my own. I am just perplexed and I don't know how to approach this situation. Thank you all.