Muslim Woman Discovers Friendly New World When a Winter Scarf Covers Her Hijab

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67. No one said that instant respect was expected, much less demanded. Did you see me say that?

As a matter of fact, nothing was mentioned about respect at all in the OP, much less the demand for it. That's what started this with me. Go back and check that if you like.

It just means we're warier and more cynical than others. Probably older too.

I'm a Black man, Father and Grandfather I know what it is to be wary. I don't give away anything easily but, I will talk to anyone who is willing to have a conversation. If I find that we have something in common we'll go from there. I give respect when I get it. If if my choice of religion disqualifies me from your respect, I don't want it.

As for your desire to see bigotry in her blog, I'd point to the fact that she was also given the cold shoulder by her community who couldn't identify her as part of their tribe. That she chose to gloss over that is understandable but doesn't make her inference that she was now "accepted" in the secular world some kind of indicator of discrimination

She didn't gloss over it at all. She was quite clear that it was different from both sides.
I have no desire to see discrimination at all. As a matter of fact, I'd rather unsee every bit that has gone on throughout my own life as if it doesn't exist but, I can't. I've struggled to keep my interactions here directed more towards decency rather than bigotry so as not to derail, but it's not something I imagined. You are free to disagree.

As to the other end of that from the Muslim men... Islam is a religion that encompasses people (a billion of them) of all colors from all over the world, if there is no outward display of said religion, how would they know? The author didn't mention whether these were the same drivers she's ridden with previously, so I have no clue. They could have been upset that she wasn't wearing her Hijab, or they may not have even recognized her and assumed that they had nothing in common, I don't know. having been a cab driver in Chicago, if you don't seem to have anything in common with your fare, it's all business. That could be it too.