World Hijab Day: Muslim women celebrate day in style

Today, women around the world will mark the 10th annual world Hijab day by posting selfies on social media with the hashtag #DressedNotOppressed.

Women who wear hijabs, a traditional Muslim headscarf, are known as a hijabi.

Hijabi is not only associated with terrorism, but hijabis have to contend with a number of stereotypes surrounding them.

Including the idea that Islam is a violent religion that the hijab is associated with terrorism and that Muslim women are oppressed and forced to wear it.

This year, organizers of the event are calling on teachers around the world to stand in unity and solidarity with Fatemeh Anvari.

She was a Canadian Muslim teacher who was removed from her classroom in a school in Quebec because she wears a hijab in December.

World Hijab Day, an initiative of the activist Nazma Khan first commemorated in 2013.

She encourages women of all faiths and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab in a bid to end negative stereotypes about Muslim women wearing religious garments.

The day is commemorated every February 1 in more than 150 countries around the world.

The theme for the 2022 commemoration is “Hijab is our crown, not a crime.”