Tucker and the Pro-Hijab Feminist (Screenshot)

“Whether a woman wants to wear a hijab is really not the point," pro-hijab National Organization of Women-NY Pres. Sonia Ossorio declared Thursday.

While appearing on Tucker Carlson’s television program, Ossorio was asked by Carlson if the supported Islamic culture’s coercion of women to wear modest attire, like the hijab.

But, whether women freely don the hijab or are forced to do so “isn’t the point,” Ossorio argued:

“Whether a woman wants to wear a hijab is really not the point.”

Instead, she said, wearing the hijab in the U.S. is an empowering method of protesting President Donald Trump: