Maybe i'm getting brainworms from twitter and this isn't a real thing and there's nobody defending this, but there is no way in hell hijab is a way to show "modesty in women". I know that there is a lot of westerners who are assholes and prejudiced against muslims and a lot of leftists want to defend them, and you should defend them, but don't do it by defending backwards practices. Hijab objectifies women.
Most of the time, women who wear hijab are pressured into doing it by an external force. It could be their immediate family, their relatives or their neighborhood. This isn't a fucking trope, it's the reality of it. It is very rare to see someone who decides to wear hijab by themselves. Sometimes people who migrate to west choose to keep wearing it as a way to connect themselves back to their home, but it isn't a common reason to wear it.
I'm not saying attack hijab, because it is not your duty to criticize islam as an outsider(and probably you won't have sufficient information nor experience to do so), but when you see some assholes attacking a hijabi woman for her hijab, defend her right to wear what she wants(even if she's forced by her family to wear it), not the hijab.
You worded it better than i could, thank you.
You wrote a good post, don't feel bad about it.
As a person who has grown up as a muslim, I could understand the points you were making and what you were talking about. People who have downvoted it probably did it out of instinct, even if your post is nothing similar to what chuds usually argue about.
I think it's important to make these points. Many young muslims really want to talk about this kind of stuff and feel conflicted, as western leftists unknowingly pressure them the same way their families or friends do, stopping them from talking.