Rally participants don hijab in solidarity with Muslim women

Come to Balboa Park, 6th Avenue and Laurel Street to gather in solidarity with Muslim women who face so much hatred in our own city ❤️❤️❤️
— Emily (@emsenn_) January 18, 2016 ^[1]

As Twitchy reported earlier ^[2], Salon published a warning to America regarding a video in which GOP candidate Marco Rubio discusses his "bizarre religious faith," which most viewers easily recognized as Catholicism. "We ought to be terrified if he means what he says," wrote Salon, adding that Rubio's beliefs about God and his desire to impose them on the country are what disqualify him to hold the office of president.

Meanwhile, at a Martin Luther King Day rally in San Diego's Balboa Park, everyone regardless of faith was Muslim for the day, which isn't bizarre at all.

"I think there's a lot of political candidates that are using Muslims as a scapegoat," Homayra Yusufi-Marin, a policy advocate for the regional branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, told KPBS. "I think that it's important for all of our allies and communities to really stand together and say that this is not the America we believe in."

An estimated 400 people attended the rally, and organizers handed out hijab for the women to wear.

About 400 San Diegans donned hijabs today to show support for Muslim women. https://t.co/E7mNzzOkFx pic.twitter.com/1nfeqMZaaU ^[3]^[4]

— KPBS News (@KPBSnews) January 19, 2016 ^[5]

Imam Taha Hassane amidst people of all faiths donning the #hijab in support of #MuslimWomen #SanDiego #BalboaPark pic.twitter.com/s5lzso9QvX ^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

— Hannah Wilder (@WilderWrites) January 18, 2016 ^[11]

"In a time of unrealistic beauty standards hijab has saved me" speaker at Gathering in solidarity with #MuslimWomen #hijab #Islam #SanDiego ^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]

— Hannah Wilder (@WilderWrites) January 18, 2016 ^[16]

Happening now in balboa park: Gathering in #solidarity with Muslim #women #equality https://t.co/HIFinQ8bkG pic.twitter.com/ijq4bDSbCZ ^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

— UNA-USA San Diego (@UNASanDiego) January 18, 2016 ^[22]

TODAY AT BALBOA PARK: Rally on solidarity of Muslim women. Hear the story on #CW6 News at 4 pic.twitter.com/X2c0CytdeF ^[23]^[24]

— CW6 San Diego (@CW6SanDiego) January 18, 2016 ^[25]

Moments from the Muslim Women Solidarity Event in Balboa Park on #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/g8smFNU3eJ ^[26]^[27]

— Myjaedah Speaks (@myjaedah) January 19, 2016 ^[28]

Children singing 'One Big Family' by @MaherZain at the Muslim Women's Solidarity Event today in San Diego. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/i02qcKIsCZ ^[29]^[30]^[31]

— Myjaedah Speaks (@myjaedah) January 19, 2016 ^[32]

What's a Muslim Women's Solidarity Event — or protest, or city council meeting, or any day of the year in San Diego — without a drum circle?

Drumming jam session after closing remarks. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/KDT5DRjpSW ^[33]^[34]

— Myjaedah Speaks (@myjaedah) January 19, 2016 ^[35]

People gathering at Balboa Park for a rally in solidarity with Muslim women. Watch @KPBSnews at 5 for the story! pic.twitter.com/W8xXVMterg ^[36]^[37]

— Andrew Bowen (@acbowen) January 18, 2016 ^[38]

To its credit, KPBS noted ^[39] that while attendees today were asked to wear the hijab in solidarity with Muslim women, not all Muslim women choose to wear the hijab. In a recent Washington Post editorial ^[40], Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa asked tha t rather than try to show solidarity by playing dress-up, they'd prefer women "stand with us instead with moral courage against the ideology of Islamism that demands we cover our hair."

Maybe at next year's rally …

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