BradfordToday and InnisfilToday welcome letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our websites. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). We received the following Letter to the Editor in regards to World Hijab Day:
World Hijab Day is observed every year on February 1st to honour Muslim women who wears the hijab. It is also a day to urge women of various origins and beliefs to try on the hijab and see what it is like to wear. Muslim women maintain their modesty by wearing the hijab.
The use of the hijab has been on the rise worldwide since the 1970s and is viewed by many Muslims as expressing modesty and faith.
Women worldwide celebrate World Hijab Day to raise awareness and re-assert the head covering as a fundamental right.
For Muslim women Hijab is a divine command given by Allah the Almighty to be practiced and observed by believing Muslim women. It is obligatory ritual upon all female Muslims who have reached the age of puberty.
Mobashira Khan,
Bradford
