A young Muslim college student in Tennessee has been expelled from school simply for wearing a hijab, a civil rights organization said. According to the letter, staff had told McAvoy that her hijab didn’t adhere to the college’s dress code. “It’s incredibly important for Muslim women to wear the hijab and get educated. We don’t think that wearing the hijab is inherently unprofessional,” Nimra Azmi, a staff attorney at Muslim Advocates told HuffPost. McAvoy said that she still dressed professionally, wearing black slacks, black shirt and a neatly-tied black hijab.

Source: Huffington Post December 13, 2018 21:20 UTC