WASHINGTON – Lebanese-American actress Kathy Najimy is prepared to wear a hijab to stand in solidarity with Muslim women on Trump’s inauguration day.

Najimy, best known for starring in “Sister Act” and Disney’s “Hocus Pocus,” recommended women attending an anti-inauguration march in Washington on Friday wear a scarf around their heads, “hijab style”, as a way of standing with their “about-to-be-disenfranchised Muslim Sisters”.

We wanted to create an action, visible and easy, to proclaim our commitment to freedom of religion and to the constitution — religion or no religion

– Kathy Najim

“We wanted to create an action, visible and easy, to proclaim our commitment to freedom of religion and to the constitution — religion or no religion,” Najimy said in a statement posted on Facebook. “We intend to show that we stand in solidarity with our about-to-be-disenfranchised Muslim sisters.”

The actress insisted that such an act would not mean endorsing any religious doctrine, but “standing for freedom.”

“We support every woman’s right to worship as they wish and live in security and peace,” she added. “We are by no means endorsing or aligning with any religious doctrine, but simply standing for freedom.”

Najimy plans to partake in the activities with the group called Sisterhood of the Travelling Scarves in the nationwide call ahead of a women’s march on Friday, which is expected to see more than 100,000 people in Washington to protest against Trump’s presidency.

“I saw a woman with an hijab, and I thought, how can she know that I support her without going up and embarrassing her? So I thought, what if we wore them on Inauguration Day?” she said.
“All issues of freedom and human rights are important to me, and I’m not a religious person or a person who supports any particular religion, but I believe in rights as a citizen, in American rights. And I believe, as the constitution says, the right to worship however you choose.”