all right, but let me tell you what the british somali activist nimko ali has to say. describes herself as both a muslim and a feminist, and she says "the hijab is meant to be worn to cover women in order to avoid tempting men. by covering up young girls, the implication is that they are sexual beings. it is not islamophobic to ban the headscarf in primary schools — or any school for that matter." so why did you feel at the age of eight, prepubescent, that you ought to wear the hijab, given what nimko ali's just been saying? i think, you know, to hide again — to hide behind feminism, for me, that sounds like very selective feminism. i, as an eight—year—old, i knew what i wanted in life and i knew how i wanted to look like. fashion has always been very important in my life. so to say, when i wear the hijab, i don't — when i was eight years old and i decided to wear the hijab, i didn't think they were, you know — my mother was telling me to wear this, or my father, to avoid getting attraction from men, because they are not my responsibility. crosstalk. but that's the imp