If you want to meet the coolest devout Muslims, say something sweepingly stupid about all Hijabis. You will soon meet a skateboarding hijabi neurosurgeon who gigs as lead guitarist on weekends to raise money for the study of childhood diseases...or some equivalent amazing person.
This is not a defense of the Hijab which can raise many complex issues. It’s an observation about how many amazingly accomplished women wear hijab and the dangers of simple stories that we tell ourselves about the other that don’t survive brushes with the complexity of reality.
[This was motivated by a recent strident conversation about Hijabis.]
