Well, choose your anecdata. Obviously, those who considered the headscarf ban an important human rights issue found articulate, outspoken girls who chose to wear a headscarf (or chose to defend it, once it became an issue, whatever their original reason for wearing it). The fact that it was easy to find such cases naturally leads the journalist or blogger (who has a narrative to tell) that this is the prevalent situation.

But consider : those girls who wear scarves because that's what is expected, and what the family wants, are also expected to not put themselves forward, because it's not their place to be in the limelight.

So you get a self-selecting sample, which can not be expected to be representative.

(perhaps you missed this)

No, I must have read it a dozen times since it was published ten years ago.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}