&gt; Would it be fair to say that since I am from America that I should get upset at anyone who wears a hijab for their own religious purposes?<p>No. Nor, even if by &quot;American&quot; you mean &quot;person other than a Muslim who believes that woman should where the hijab&quot;, but the former is neither equivalent to nor does it imply the latter -- there are Americans who were the hijab for their own religious reasons -- is that really parallel to the issue at hand.<p>Now, if you were such a person -- and a woman -- and someone asked <i>you</i> to wear a hijab to accommodate their religion&#x27;s prohibition for women being uncovered in the presence of non-related men, then that would be more parallel to (though arguably somewhat more <i>extreme</i> than) the situation at issue. 
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