She evidently doesn't seem to want to. She's perfectly happy not challenging anyone (i.e. her family and her religious beliefs) and just including it in all her costumes. She's not yelling "I'm oppressed help me," I assume she's wearing it because she's proud of it.
"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning." by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Philosopher and Educator
Why is this even a news story? Hey look at me, I'm a Christian who integrates a cross with my cosplay outfits! Hey look at me, I'm a Mormon who wears my temple garments with my cosplay costumes!
Niqab's unnerve me.
The idea of seeing a person and not being able to tell anything about them is distressing to the senses I think. We are such visually reliant creatures - having access to no visual information about someone leaves you in that constant 'threat' mode - because you can't deduce anything about them, size, silhouette, sex, hair color, skin color, eye color, facial expressions, posture, hand gestures, what they are holding, etc.
So our brain tries to assess the threat a person potentially poses to us upon meeting them, and we get no information, not even enough to identify them if we saw them again 5 minutes later.
I'm amenable to the idea that you can grow accustomed to Niqab though if it's common in your culture - but it isn't in North America.
Additionally, I think the idea of a Niqab is particularly offensive in the Western World because we define ourselves through our individuality. The intent of a Niqab is to deny the woman any identifiable individuality. Nothing could appear more oppressive to the Western mind, so deeply invested in individuality, than being denied our appearance, our posture, our choice of clothing, our sex, our eye color, hair color, silhouette, etc. In the West we carefully craft our appearance to define who we as individuals are - nothing could be more diametrically opposed to that expression of identity than the Niqab.
I completely understand why the visceral reaction to the Niqab in Western society is so repulsive and offensive to us, and why it's so often interpretted as oppression of the woman to us - because to us that is exactly what it is.
However, while I can't personally relate to the idea that it is somehow a comforting choice to the woman - I don't exactly believe they are all brainwashed and lying to us when they say they enjoy it and choose it. It's likely to some degree a culture difference, even though I want to blurt out right now that brainwashing and oppression is surely at least part of it
With all that said, I have ~no such inclinations toward the Hijab. They are two very different topics to me - little different than someone choosing to wear a baseball hat, or wrap their hair in a scarf, or a turban, or really big cats eye sunglasses.
Edit:
I guess the other topic here is the need to cover women in the first place. The idea with covering the hair is to avoid arrousing God or something, which is just so weird - as though a womans hair was so attractive it would uncomfortably arrouse God if he could only see it from above (can't see it indoors though, God can't see through roofs, duh). The idea with Niqabs is similarly to not arrouse men, why? Are men such base animals we can't see a woman outside a Niqab and control ourselves? The Niqab seems like an insult to male self-control more than anything. Also, if it's really about not arrousing men, wouldn't it not apply to ugly women? It's not like they are only shrouding the 10/10's, or that if you are below a 3/10 you don't need a Niqab, right?
That calls the whole idea that it's about self-control or protecting the woman from men into question: because it's clearly not. Which is probably why the Western world is also probably so quick to assume it must be about oppressing the woman's individuality.
She should do a quarian cosplay.
no joke, I love Quarians in Mass Effect.
She'll probably be stoned to death for blasphemy via Sharia law.
If she wants to do cosplay more power to her. That being said I don’t find her actual cosplay costume all that interesting or imaginative. Kinda like something one would buy in the Halloween section of party city plus a hijab. So is it about the cosplay or the hijab?
Seems like hijabs are quite the controversial subject, judging by this thread.
I wonder how Captain America feels about them. Isn't the guy incapable of being bad?