The decision to act as non-Muslim as possible is an emergent phenomenon – but not an entirely fresh oneTwo weeks after Donald Trump was elected president,Nora decided to remove her headscarf – for fine. Weighing on the intellect of the 23-year-veteran were recent assaults against conspicuous Muslims like herself. State suspicion and private violence would only get worse under Trump, she feared. So she hid part of her identity from the world. Many Muslim men and women, or like Nora,choose to conceal their Muslim identity – or express it in a way that is less “threatening” to others. Some take things one step further: they undertake the extreme measure of erasing their Muslim identity altogether by passing as non-Muslim in public.
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Source: theguardian.com