“I was wondering if I could borrow one of your long black garments and a hijab and a face thing not sure what it’s called haha.”
"I was hoping it was a joke," said the 23-year-old Muslim woman who received the text message below from a college friend. "I was waiting for a 'just kidding' text that never came."
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The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told BuzzFeed News that she's used to getting odd questions about her faith and her decision to wear the hijab — but she was "in shock" after receiving the text.
She said that the message was from a friend and fellow 2014 graduate of Drexel University in Philadelphia.
"We had a few classes together. [The sender] was a social science major as well, so some of our electives were the same. We studied together. She was a sorority girl, I was — I dressed like — a conservative Muslim, so we were opposites."
The woman, who was born and raised in New York and has worn the hijab for almost seven years, said that she and the sender would often ask each other questions about their different backgrounds.
"It's very, very hard to offend me," she said.
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"Throughout college, I automatically became the spokesperson for Islam even though I didn't want to," she said. "I was the only Muslim girl in most of my classes, and in political science in general, Islam comes up a lot, so I was always the go-to person."
"I always wanted to keep myself open so people could ask me questions, because I thought, Dumb questions are still better than ignorance."
"I would get lots of very, very weird questions from lots of people, but this text was just something so different," she said.
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