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Two young women, one Buddhist and one Muslim, help to foster religious tolerance and greater understanding by supporting an annual event on February 1 when non-Muslim women are invited to \u201cexperience the hijab<\/a>\u201d for one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA headscarf isn\u2019t meant to hurt you; it\u2019s what\u2019s meant to protect you. You\u2019re modest in the sense of God looking at you, but you\u2019re modest to other people as well,\u201d says Umand Weerasinghe, a young Buddhist woman in Maryland whose Muslim friend Sofia Amir loaned her a scarf to wear for Hijab Day. 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