The hijab (etc) is immodest

[Leonardo17]

Some Muslim women are also compelled not to wear the hijab. You can always find a group of people compelled to do just about anything.

"Symbol of oppression" is a purely subjective sentence you can keep repeating all day long. Similarly one can simply declare "miniskirts reflect moral decadence" which is subjective too. It's just your word against mine.

I would be perfectly happy if there was NO compulsion in how people dress. And I agree - telling women that they cannot wear the hijab is every bit as oppressive as forcing them to wear it.

Boru

-     No civilized notion does that either. This is also islamist propaganda.
Yer Khadaffi or the Soviets may have done it. The Peoples Republic of China may be doing it. Countries similar to these may have done it or may be doing it. But that’s all.
 
In the civilized world the only issue is the issue of laicity. A girl wan’t to go to a regular school and they may have told her that she can’t do it just like a Christian girl cannot come to class while openly showing the cross on her chest.
 
In the past, in some countries, the headscarf was banned in Universities too or couldn’t enter the university exam wearing a headscarf because of the principle of laicity.
That’s a policy that used to be exaggerated. An 18 year old girl can decide about what she wants to believe in or doesn’t want to believe in and can make her own decisions about almost everything. So yes, this was an exaggerated type of public policy (Used to be).
 
But still: In the civilized world, nobody ever forced anyone not to wear the hijab. This is a lie or an exaggeration at best.