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Originally Posted by Acajack
This is not to be snarky, but I am actually quite surprised that given where you live you know that many people who are willing to speak freely against the niqab and hijab.
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Well, these aren't politicians or media personalities but personal conversations between friends & acquaintances.
That, and being more personally familiar with the issue beyond feel-good ideals of diversity usually gives people a bit more confidence and passion to be vocal in their opinion (plus, they can't really be called a racist).
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Originally Posted by Acajack
In the case of hijabs even if it's not everyone I'd say in Quebec and Ontario the group of wearers tilts fairly heavily towards younger women. And certainly under 40 or 50. You do see older women with hijabs but not that many relative to how many younger ones you see - perhaps it's because Muslims tend to be newer, younger arrivals or younger Canadian-born?
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I've noticed this as well, and that it seems particularly common amongst teenage and college-aged women. This suggests to me that it's either not really a voluntary thing for many of them - or that there's more acceptance of them today and so they just feel more free to wear the hijab than older generations of North American Muslim women did. Perhaps a bit of both.
Admittedly, while a pretty big chunk of my social circle are of (generally non-practicing, or moderate Shia) Muslim or Middle-Eastern background, I've never really had any close relationships with hijab-wearers and the more religiously-minded to have a better understanding of
their motivations