Non-Muslim girls in Lincolnshire are being asked to wear a hijab for a day to raise awareness of discrimination and ‘Islamophobia’
Ghada Mohamed is a member of the Lincoln Muslim Sisters Forum and said she came up with the idea in response to a number of incidents where girls wearing hijabs were subjected to abuse.
She is hopeful that in the future this will become a nationwide event.
Talking about apparent abuse some girls have faced. Mohamed said:
“If they have been attacked or abused it’s not because other children are bad. It’s just because they don’t have the knowledge.”
The hijab day, to be held in November, is to try and assist non-Muslim children to understand what it is like to wear a hijab, and the reasons behind it, she said.
One Muslim girl said the hijab was part of her identity, but wearing it sometimes made her feel like she was not part of the community.
She said she supported the idea of a hijab day:
“They would see it’s just a piece of cloth covering our heads. It would be a big step to letting people know it’s just a headscarf – nothing else.”
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