--- title: Women Support World Hijab Day With Selfies #IStand4Hijab description: Women of all faiths are invited to take part in World Hijab day on Feb. 1. canonical: https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-01T22:53:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:42.087Z og:title: Women Stand With Muslim Women on World Hijab Day og:description: This is the fifth annual World Hijab Day og:url: https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Women Stand With Muslim Women on World Hijab Day twitter:description: This is the fifth annual World Hijab Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Women Join in Celebration of World Hijab Day: 'Empathy Is Powerful'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 1, 2017 10:53 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 1, 2017 10:53 PM UTC Women around the world are showing their solidarity with [Muslim women](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,185647,00.html) today by [wearing hijabs](http://time.com/money/4572115/wear-hijab-work-afraid-civil-rights/) for the fifth annual World Hijab Day. The day was created in 2013 by Nazma Khan to bring light to the marginalization that Muslim women face. The effort began to motivate social change, Khan explained in an interview with [OkayAfrica](http://www.okayafrica.com/in-brief/world-hijab-day/). “I thought if I could invite women of all faiths — Muslim and non-Muslim — to walk in my shoes just for one day, perhaps things would change,” Khan said. As a result, women participating are sharing photos of themselves wearing headscarves on social-media platforms with the hashtag, #iStand4Hijab. See tweets from World Hijab Day below. > [](https://twitter.com/WorldHijabDay/status/825942193923842048) > [](https://twitter.com/biibaa%5FT/status/826817301337034757) > [](https://twitter.com/MrsMSBrown/status/826818357257179136) > [](https://twitter.com/mariamawh/status/826759492989751297) > [](https://twitter.com/ANNISAAORG/status/821546865128865792) > [](https://twitter.com/WorldHijabDay/status/821457876162056194) > [](https://twitter.com/nayakowz/status/822547027347341318) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/"},"headline":"Women Join in Celebration of World Hijab Day: 'Empathy Is Powerful'","datePublished":"2017-02-01T22:53:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:42.087Z","description":"This is the fifth annual World Hijab Day","url":"https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Religion","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4657268/world-hijab-day-2017/","name":"Women Join in Celebration of World Hijab Day: 'Empathy Is Powerful'"}}]}] ```