The New York Times published an article on the 11th of August by Roger Cohen called, “Olympians in Hijabs and Bikinis.” Roger Cohen explores the issue of each country’s view of the others image, and how those assumptions are evil and the misunderstanding can cause chaos and violence. He goes on to state that the treatment in every country is a sensitive area, they are for what they wear, their sexuality, their desires. Two accounts are recorded by two women’s encounter with the hijab, Chadiedja Buijs and Norma Moore, an Egyptian and an American.

Chadiedja, adopted the hijab, at the age of nineteen, and her mother confronted her saying, “I left my country so that you could be free and this is what freedom did?” Chadieja admits to having spiritual problems and feeling as though she was too controlling. She goes on to say that adopting the hijab and the religion attached to it helped her to straighten out her life, she fasted and became devoted. “The hijab is a matter of representation. I know the person I am and the ideas I have. But the person in front of me only sees the …show more content…
Norma states that she believes in the Christian religion, that God created her out of love. However, she goes on to say, “When I put on the hijab in Iran and the shapeless tunic I experience an attempt to deny how I have been made- an attempt to neutralize me.” Norma made a trip to the Middle East and in order not to offend the natives she grasped the concept of the hijab and learned how to put it on. In response to the whole point of the tunic Norma states, “My hair, my curves in my body, were given to me by God,” she goes on to explain that the hijab and the dress code provided by ISIS is unfair to the beautiful girls in the Middle East. They are unable to show a sliver of skin because they are somehow responsible for the men’s