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Muslim women across the world have just one identity that excludes them from the rest of the women community- the veil. The western media often interprets this veil as a ‘symbol of oppression‘.



However, Miss England winner, Hammasa Kohistani has something else to say to the world. Only about a year ago, Hammasa was among the so-called students in a college based in West London, but her life has undergone a drastic change, when she all of sudden forced by her impulse went for the Miss England Beauty Pageant and ended up winning the crown and thereby becoming the First Muslim women to have won the title.



The Beauty Queen now has become a popular political figure and a voice for the Muslim women. She believes that it is not necessary that all Muslim women wear veils. I quote her words: ‘We don’t all wear burqas’.



Well folks, it seems that the woman surely has a message behind this statement, which she wants to convey to all her fellow sisters as well as to the western world and the religious leaders.



Via: INDEPENDENT