Age Woman: Woman and Muslim

age woman: They assume her father makes decisions for her, but it was her own decision to start wearing the hijab, a headscarf, at age 16, according to CBC. Woman don Muslim headscarves at 'Hijab for a Day' event Liberal MP's anti-Islamophobia motion set for debate on Wednesday They assume she doesn't speak English, when in fact she speaks it well. They assume she is a submissive woman but she regularly stands up for herself in the face of discrimination. It gets worse when you're not just a Muslim; you're a woman, you're visibly Muslim, possibly you're an immigrant, she told CBC's Jason D'Souza. They assume all of these things, she said, in part because of her heritage and her headscarf. When all those identities intersect, she said, it just makes it a lot worse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.