Sentence examples similar to put the headscarf from inspiring English sources

Pressure makes for counter-pressure and Muslim girls feel that by putting on the headscarf at least they have some kind of identity".

I found that less of a worry in Saudi Arabia; the religious police there might tell me to put my headscarf on but they seemed more concerned with privacy than my being a threat to security or political danger.

When the woman refuses to put on a headscarf to please the foreign man, his companion is awkwardly forced to translate her defiant words.

"I remember him saying that if you put a headscarf around a bus, perhaps Muslims might vote for us.

It occurs to me that I can put on a headscarf and slip into the crowd as a Palestinian.

The first time Mariana Aguilera put on a headscarf in public, she was nervous about how others would perceive her.

Davidson: Several women told you that they found wearing hijab comforting, even liberating — and that included women who, in their younger days, would never have put on a headscarf.

In her case, the story goes that she was victimized by an overbearing boyfriend, later husband, and "totally changed" when she dropped out of college, put on a headscarf, and had a baby at age 21.

He has said that Muslim women wear the headscarf to avoid putting on make-up.

Secularists are also concerned that new constitutional changes could allow the government to stack the judiciary with headscarf-friendly Islamists.Tarhan Erdem, a pollster, argues that allowing the headscarf into schools could put pressure on all girls to veil themselves, particularly in the conservative Anatolian hinterland.

"This is the only time during the year when we are allowed to do what we want, but even here they don't leave us alone," said Giti, 55, reluctantly putting on her headscarf.