The ongoing hijab row has stirred up a debate amongst Indians. Celebrities have weighed in their opinion and shared their thoughts. The latest celebrity who shared her two cents on the hijab row is Zaira Wasim.?
In her post, Zaira reinstated that wearing the hijab "fulfilling an obligation enjoined upon her by the God."She added,?
"I, as a woman who wears the hijab, with gratitude and humility, resent and resist this entire system where women are being stopped and harassed for merely carrying out a religious commitment."?
"Stacking this bias against Muslim women and setting up systems where they should have to decide between education and hijab or to give up either is an absolute injustice. You¡¯re attempting to compel them to make a particular choice that feeds your agenda and then criticizing them while they're imprisoned in what you've constructed," she further wrote.?
"On top of all this, building a fa?ade that all this is being done in the name of empowerment is even worse when it is quite exactly the opposite of that. Sad."?
The hijab row began on January 1 when six female Muslim students at Government PU College in Udupi claimed they weren't allowed to enter their college wearing hijab. The students started a protest against the college authorities, and it snowballed into a statewide issue across Karnataka.?The matter is currently in the Karnataka High Court.?
In 2019, she announced that she quit acting as her acting career conflicted with her religious beliefs and faith.
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