{"id":686,"date":"2012-04-06T10:33:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myislamiclife.wordpress.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-04-06T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:33:45","slug":"the-hijab-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/myislamiclife\/2012\/04\/06\/the-hijab-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hijab Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ve read a couple of blog posts this week about the journey a women takes when deciding to wear a hijab. These area always touching and enlightening and always different. The stories I\u2019ve heard are of women who decided themselves to wear hijab. They weren\u2019t forced to cover. They made the choice, and even though sometimes they struggle, they wouldn\u2019t go back.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where the hijab journey will take me with my ladies. Pea and Kate practice sometimes, they are conscious of the scarves that their friends wear, and the ladies and teachers in their lives. They comment and compliment, and I know that there is something cooking in the back of their little minds. I\u2019m waiting for the questions again, and I\u2019m stockpiling information from these posts to help me through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muslimhippie.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/04\/the-many-shades-of-a-headscarf\/#comment-182\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Muslim Hippie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abayaaddict.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/05\/journey-to-hijab\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abaya Addict<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve read a couple of blog posts this week about the journey a women takes when deciding to wear a hijab. These area always touching and enlightening and always different. The stories I\u2019ve heard are of women who decided themselves to wear hijab. They weren\u2019t forced to cover. 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