Hyderabad: The former Indian actress, Zaira Wasim who quit acting, has lamented upon efforts to ban hijab in educational institutions. She stated: “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.”
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Refuting Karnataka government’s claim that hijab is not essential part of Islam, Zaira declared that hijab is not a choice but an obligation in Islam, she said: “The inherited notion of hijab being a choice is an ill informed one. It’s often either a construct of convenience or ignorance. Hijab isn’t a choice but an obligation in Islam.”
She added: “Likewise a woman who wears the hijab is fulfilling an obligation enjoined upon her by the God she loves and has submitted herself to.”
Lamenting upon the efforts to ban hijab in educational institutions, the former actress asserted: “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.”
Calling it sheer injustice, Zaira Wasim deplored: “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.”
She added: You’re 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.”
Wasim announced to quit acting On 30 June 2019, saying it conflicts with her religious beliefs and faith. In November 2020, Wasim requested fans to take down her pictures from social media as she was trying to start a new chapter in her life.
