Abdelghani News Today

I didnt feel like a target anymore. >> reporter: a visible target, a muslim woman in a head scarf. since she was a senior in high school, abdelghani wore the traditional scarf while in public part of her faith and identity. >> we have to stop the muslims. >> reporter: this presidential election, that changed. >> i was walking on the street and a driver drove by me and slowed down and rolled down his window and he just spit at me. >> reporter: he spit at you? >> yeah. it was getting closer and cl...

>> reporter: do you think you will wear it again someday? >> yeah, i hope so. i dont -- i hope i can wear it one day again. i hope i can feel safe enough to do so. >> reporter: to practice one of the founding principles of america, freedom of religion. abdelghani says if theres anything she feels bad about, any regret she has, its abandoning the women, the muslim women who have decided to not just continue to wear the scarf for religious reasons but almost in an act of defiance, kate. there is a...

Driven by fear. now post-election, sharing tips on social media. and making a searing choice, their faith or personal safety. >> the headscarf has just become something that went from being a very spiritual element of a womans life to being something where she had to be scared to wear it. i, myself, just didnt feel like i wanted to continue with that fear. >> the only places where abdelghani feels free to express that part of islam is in the privacy of her apartment and her mosque. to the incomi...