Commentary: Quebec's chilling ban on religious clothing
Right after 9/11, my mom started wearing the hijab in Sarnia, Ontario - a town with little diversity on the U.S. border. She had made a conscious and unilateral decision to do so, despite the reservations and anxiety my father and I shared about the potential ramifications of her choice. After all, there had been a spike in hate crimes against Muslims following the deadliest terrorist attack on North American soil.
To the teenage me, it was a bold feminist choice. A woman, my mom, made the choice to
