New Delhi: Former Actress Zaira Wasim reacts on the on going hijab row. On the ongoing controversy has caught the attention of many celebrities like, Sonam Kapoor, Javed Akhtar.
Zaira Wasim has recently used her social media power to react on the issue. She posted a long note on twitter, speaking of “the inherited notion of hijab being a choice is an ill-informed one.”
The ‘Secret Superstar’ actor’s post comes days after several women in Karnataka were heckled by protestors for wearing a hijab.
“It’s often either a construct of convenience or ignorance. Hijab isn’t a choice but an obligation in Islam. Likewise, a woman who wears the hijab is fulfilling an obligation enjoined upon her by the God she loves and has submitted herself to,” the 21-year-old shared.
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.”
Her statement continues, “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.”
Zaira also slammed the critics for “attempting to compel them to make a very specific choice that feeds your agenda and then criticising them while they’re imprisoned in what you’ve constructed.”
“There is no other option to encourage them to choose differently. What is this if not a bias with people who confirm it acting in support of it? On top of all this, building a facade that all this is being done in the name of empowerment is even worse when it is quite exactly the opposite of that. Sad,” Zaira concluded her statement.
A bench of Justice three-judge Bench of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justices Krishna S Dixit and JM Khazi were hearing out petition challenging the ban on hijab.
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