Non-Muslim women in solidarity with Muslims on World Hijab Day

February 8, 2017 - 14:32

TEHRAN - Women of all faiths around the world wore hijab in solidarity with Muslim women on World Hijab Day, Feb. 1, 2017.

New Yorker Nazma Khan started the global movement five years ago by asking women around the world to wear the hijab for the day in 2013.
Particularly, World Hijab Day focuses on fighting bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice against Muslim women.

Members of Iran women’s national softball team are training at a special camp in the city of Isfahan on Monday 6 February 2017. Tehran Times/ Abbas Poustindooz

A woman wears a U.S. flag as a hijab at an anti-Trump protest in Berlin

Alaa Saffaf, the president of the Muslim Student Association on the University of Missouri–St.

A woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jewish and Christian women wearing hijab in solidarity with Muslim women

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