![Observing hijab is meant to be a choice for individual women to make according to their own faith.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170607085045im_/https://www.fairfaxstatic.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/t/r/o/y/image.related.landscape.460x307.gttr9i.png/1484905890963.jpg)
How young is too young to wear the hijab?
Australia spends an inordinate amount of time obsessing over Muslim women in hijab. With the intense media scrutiny placed on Islam and Muslims unlikely to abate anytime soon, this obsession is more often than not completely unjustified.