native informant asra nomani, whose hero is new atheist/dedicated shill for empire bill maher, writes an article in the washington post warning good americans not to stand in solidarity with muslim women who wear the hijab. after all, muslim women who choose to be visibly muslim and can be coded as such, don’t deserve solidarity but rather the verbal and physical violence that they’ve been subjected to in an increasingly hysterical west. muslims constitute 1% of the american population, muslim women a whopping 0.5% and those who wear the hijab an even smaller fraction of that 0.5% – let’s not let things get out of hand. she begs decent westerners not to translate the word hijab as “headscarf” (even articles of clothing worn by muslims must embody some sort of nefarious intention) and urges them not to encourage islamist ideology. what courage it must take for ms nomani to address 99% of the american public, already in the throes of islamophobic anxiety, and enjoin them to view a microscopic and vulnerable contingent of mostly non-white women as some kind of ominous threat to pro-women western values. what next ms nomani, forced unveilings like those practiced by the french in colonized algeria? whether nomani believes in the hijab or not and whatever sinister significance she wants to attribute to it, women have the right to dress whichever way they want. what women choose to do with their bodies is a personal choice, whether it be their uterus or their face or the top of their head. live with it.