Bella Hadid speaks up against Karnataka hijab ban

Bella Hadid/Instagram

American supermodel Bella Hadid, took to Instagram on Friday to post about violence and discrimination against Muslim women, who wear the hijab, including in India's Karnataka besides countries like France, Quebec and Belgium.

Bella posted screenshots of several articles highlighting discrimination in the above mentioned countries and shared her thoughts by posting, "I urge France, India , Quebec, Belgium, and any other countries in the world who are discriminatory against Muslim women, to rethink what decisions you have made or are trying to make in the future about a body that is not yours. It's not your job to tell women what they should or shouldn't wear, especially when it is pertaining to faith and safety."

The post went on to say, "It's not your job to tell women whether or not they can study or play sports especially when it is pertaining to their faith and safety. Hijabi women in France are not allowed to wear their Hijab to school, to play sports, to swim, even on their ID pictures. You can't be a civil worker or work in hospitals with a Hijab. To get an internship, most universities will say, the only way to get one is to take off the hijab. It's ridiculous and really shows how Islamophobic the world is without even acknowledging it. In regards to these new Bills that are either in the process of being passed , or have already. The egocentrics of a man to think for even for one second, that they have enough validity to make decisions for a woman in 2022, are not only laughable but actually sick in the head. As my friend @taqwabintali said to me " You know, at the root of it all, all of this is just much deeper than Islamophobia; it's pure sexism and misogyny. no matter the countries or the time men always want to control what a woman does and wears. It needs to stop."

Bella also shared a post from the Instagram account, Muslims of the world, where Hoda, a Muslim teen girl was brutally beaten and had her hijab ripped off at Otago Girls' High School, New Zealand and went on to share another post about discrimination against Muslim women in the fashion world.