Can Islam and a career in fashion live together, and perfectly? Well, this is another Muslim women-related unanswered question. For, modelling calls for revealing skin, cat walking in semi-nude, posing in bikinis, etc.



But does Islam permit all this? Perhaps not, as it believes in modest dressing?



Michelle Leslie is just one of the thousands of Australian Muslim girls, who are trying to make their presence felt in the modeling world. As part of her job, she has even photographed astride a motorbike baring her bottom. Leslie has converted herself to Islam and has adopted a much modest wardrobe. She has switched to black burqua/burka, worn by the most devout Muslim women.



Though Leslie has converted to Islam yet Muslim commentators, including Australian Federation of Islamic Council’s head Ameer Ali, said that Leslie cannot be both a Muslim and a model, as there is an Islamic code of dressing according to which women must dress modestly.



But to be very frank, I personally feel that if one cannot wear the way one likes, then one is not following Islam but being dictated by it or, to be more precise, it is to be a slave of Islam.