President Trump’s executive order to halt travel from several Muslim-majority countries set off protests across America—and a familiar sense of concern for Muslims. At the Women’s March on Washington two weeks ago, a poster depicting a woman in a hijab became an iconic symbol for progressives. As a Muslim woman and an immigrant, I can appreciate the left’s concern for people like me. But in their embrace of Islam, many have made hijab-wearing women the face of the religion. I don’t wear a headscarf, and neither do most other Muslim women I know.

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