"The 'hijab oppresses women' narrative is not only racist, it is also sexist," according to Dalia Mogahed, a former executive director for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. "To assume a woman's hijab was forced without asking her is to presume she views Western styles as ideal." Mogahed also cited several Gallup surveys showing that about 90 percent of Muslims globally believe that hijab is a free choice by the vast majority of women who wear it all over the world. … "Oppression means the taking away of someone's power and their agency. Yet a woman in a hijab is only covering her body and hair, not her voice or intellect," she told the New York Times. "A man dressed in a full robe and head cover—like many do in the Middle East—is not said to be oppressed. To say that hijab oppresses women is to say that the source of a woman's power—but not a man's—is her body and not her mind."

QUESTION: Mogahed cites Gallup showing ~90% of Muslim women globally report wearing hijab as free choice — worth verifying/exploring this data as counterweight to Western victimhood narratives.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 373