The study will be carried out at University of California, San-Francisco (UCSF), the lucky winner of the grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The new approach to treating genetic diseases that will be studied will include gene and stem cell therapy.
Hillary Clinton praised a fencer on the US Olympic team for being the first to wear a hijab. She tweeted a photo of her with this comment: âIn Rio, Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first American Muslim athlete to compete while wearing a hijab.â.
While the number of Muslim women in America who wear the hijab or niqab has never been recorded, some suggest that there was an increase in Muslim women covering after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as many wished to express their identities in the wake of anti-Muslim sentiment.