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Sarsour: I Was An ‘Ordinary White Girl’ ‘Til I Put On A Hijab

Robert Kraychik

Linda Sarsour’s status as a “person of color” is contingent on her wearing a hijab (an Islamic headscarf for females), according to her own self-description in a video segment excerpted by Elder of Zion:

When I wasn’t wearing a hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City. Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.

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