Man reportedly stabs mother, 3 daughters over their attire

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110. You better correct Wikipedia, they say otherwise as do other sources on Islam:

In nearly all Muslim cultures, young girls are not required to wear a ħijāb. There is not a single agreed age when a woman should begin wearing a ħijāb—but in many Muslim cultures, puberty is the dividing line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab#Alternative_views

And on Islamic Sites:

For many, hijab is obligatory on every Muslim woman, and the definition of “woman” tends to be when a girl begins menstruating.

http://www.womanistmusings.com/should-children-wear-hijab/

Question: At what age are Muslim girls expected to start wearing the hijab?

Answer: In Islam, all individuals become responsible and accountable for their behavior at the age of puberty. The Islamic teachings about modest dress apply to any person, male or female, at that time.

http://islam.about.com/od/dress/f/hijab_girls.htm

Islamic teachings on this subject are based on the Qur'an, and on the specific sayings/traditions of the Prophet Muhammad, known as the hadith. In one often-cited tradition, it is reported that a young woman visited Muhammad's wife Aisha while she was wearing see-through clothing. Muhammad averted his eyes and told her, "After a young woman reaches the age of puberty, nothing should be seen of her except this and this," motioning to his face and hands. Therefore, it is expected at this age for Muslim girls to adapt more modest styles of dress that do not expose too much

http://www.islamicfaq.info/Islamic_FAQ_Atheists_hijab.html

The main reason for this "Exception" is in almost all societies pre sewing machine (i.e. pre 1830) is was common for pre teen children to go around NAKED. Mark Twain points this out in "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

"The small boys and girls were always naked; but nobody seemed to know it"

http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/digi038.pdf

As a person entered what we would call their elementary school years, they started to wear more and more clothes, but given the fact that they often worn them out, the tendency was for simple dresses even for young boys. On the US Frontier till the 1830s the most common garment for men to wear was a "Hunting Shirt" and leggings. The Hunting shirt extended to the top of the leggings, the leggings attached to the inside of the Hunting shirt, You did not see anything, but only the hunting shirt cover the ass.

Only with puberty did the rate of growth slow down for people to wear clothes long enough to wear them out, thus most people pre puberty wore little if any clothing pre sewing machine (and what was worn tended to be sack dresses).

Remember WOMEN had to HAND SEW these articles of clothing pre sewing machine, thus for most children the clothing that required the least amount of sewing was what they worn till they could sew they own clothing and that tended to be puberty.

The sewing machine is one of the greatest inventions in history, but it is down play for it mostly relived woman of house work, unlike more famous inventions that eased the toil of men. The Sewing machine permitted us to cloth those pre school children and to better cloth those children to young to sew their own clothes.