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As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity

By Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa

Dec. 21, 2015 at 7:00 a.m. EST

Last week, three female religious leaders a Jewish rabbi, an Episcopal vicar and a Unitarian reverend and a male imam, or Muslim prayer leader, walked into the sacred space in front of the ornately-tiled minbar, or pulpit, at the Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City, Utah. The women were smiling widely, their hair covered with swaths of bright scarves, to support Wear a Hijab day.

The Salt Lake Tribune published a photo of fresh-faced teenage girls, who were not Muslim, in the audience at the mosque, their hair covered with long scarves. KSL TV later reported: The hijab or headscarf is a symbol of modesty and dignity. When Muslim women wear headscarves, they are readily identified as followers of Islam.

For us, as mainstream Muslim women, born in Egypt and India, the spectacle at the mosque was a painful reminder of the well-financed effort by conservative Muslims to dominate modern Muslim societies. This modern-day movement spreads an ideology of political Islam, called Islamism, enlisting well-intentioned interfaith do-gooders and the media into promoting the idea that hijab is a virtual sixth pillar of Islam, after the traditional five pillars of the shahada (or proclamation of faith), prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage.

We reject this interpretation that the hijab is merely a symbol of modesty and dignity adopted by faithful female followers of Islam.

This modern-day movement, codified by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Taliban Afghanistan and the Islamic State, has erroneously made the Arabic word hijab synonymous with headscarf. This conflation of hijab with the secular word headscarf is misleading. Hijab literally means curtain in Arabic. It also means hiding, obstructing and isolating someone or something. It is never used in the Koran to mean headscarf.

In colloquial Arabic, the word for headscarf is tarha. In classical Arabic, head is al-raas and cover is ghetaa. No matter what formula you use, hijab never means headscarf. The media must stop spreading this misleading interpretation.

Born in the 1960s into conservative but open-minded families (Hala in Egypt and Asra in India), we grew up without an edict that we had to cover our hair. But, starting in the 1980s, following the 1979 Iranian revolution of the minority Shiite sect and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics from the majority Sunni sect, we have been bullied in an attempt to get us to cover our hair from men and boys. Women and girls, who are sometimes called enforce-hers and Muslim mean girls, take it a step further by even making fun of women whom they perceive as wearing the hijab inappropriately, referring to hijabis in skinny jeans as ho-jabis, using the indelicate term for whores.

But in interpretations from the 7th century to today, theologians, from the late Moroccan scholar Fatima Mernissi to UCLAs Khaled Abou El Fadl, and Harvards Leila Ahmed, Egypts Zaki Badawi, Iraqs Abdullah al Judai and Pakistans Javaid Ghamidi, have clearly established that Muslim women are not required to cover their hair.