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Maple Grove, Minnesota – 4 January 2025
1. Various women tubing down snow hill
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasrieen Habib, Hiking Hijabie founder:
“The biggest reason for me to go outside is nature therapy. Like, I get really bad seasonal depression. I’ve always been outdoorsy. I’m an extrovert. I can’t imagine being in a house or, like, kind of cooped up in four walls and not being outside.”
3. Various women sliding down tubing hill and riding lift
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasrieen Habib, Hiking Hijabie founder:
“Hiking Hijabie, we started three years ago. We started with nine members. It was a call to action. Just like, who wants to go hiking? It was never meant to be like something other than just like a hiking group. And so with that came a lot of, like, demand of sisters adding to our group chat, and now we’re over, 730 women.”
5. Various women at top of tubing hill
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Makiya Amin, Hiking Hijabie participant:
“Well, I’ve never been snow tubing. I’ve always wanted to, but I just never had the opportunity. So when Nasrieen reached out, I was like, heck yeah. Like, I’m going to go.”
7. Various women tubing down hill
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Makiya Amin, Hiking Hijabie participant:
“I feel like I’ve always wanted to be outdoorsy, but just there’s never there was never really an opportunity. And I didn’t really have those type of people who were outdoorsy already around me. So having, you know, like minded ladies around, it makes it a lot easier.”
9. Various women heading back up hill
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasrieen Habib, Hiking Hijabie founder:
“Winter is one of the toughest seasons to get our community to be in the outdoors. Number one, majority of us are, like, of African descendants. And so we migrated here coming from climates that are very hot.”
11. Various women wearing wither clothing
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasrieen Habib, Hiking Hijabie founder:
“And so my biggest, lesson is like, as long as you know how to dress for the weather, there’s no such thing as bad weather.”
13. People on ski hill
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorida Latifi, Hiking Hijabie participant:
“It’s very good to hang out with sisters, Muslim sisters and doing outdoors.”
15. Latifi and son on tubing hill UPSOUND (English): “That was fun.”
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jorida Latifi, Hiking Hijabie participant:
“It is different feeling. It feels way, way more like you are with the family.”
17. Group photo at bottom of tubing hill
STORYLINE:
Makiya Amin sped over jumps and bumps down an icy hill at her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero (-18 Celsius) January morning.
She had joined two dozen other members of a group founded by a Somali-American mother in Minneapolis to promote all-seasons activities among Muslim women, who might otherwise feel singled out in the great outdoors, especially when wearing hijabs.
“I feel like I’ve always wanted to be outdoorsy, but just there’s never there was never really an opportunity. And I didn’t really have those type of people who were outdoorsy already around me. So having, you know, like minded ladies around, it makes it a lot easier,” said Amin
As one of the most visible signs of the Muslim faith, hijabs often attract controversy. Within Islam, some women want to wear the headscarves for piety and modesty, while others oppose them as a symbol of oppression. In the sports world, including in the last Olympics, devout athletes have often faced extra hurdles on and off the field in finding accommodations for religious practices.
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