Orhan PamukThe real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
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With the rise in popularity of Islam in the past few years, so many people have taken the headscarf to be a symbol of their religion and a symbol of oppression. However, there is such a thing as Islamophobia and when people use it as an excuse to hate Islam and Muslims.
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