The Liberia Muslim Women Network (LNW- NET) will this Wednesday February 1, 2023 gathered Women of Liberia to embarked on a peaceful march through the some principal street of Monrovia, Beginning from Benson Street Central Mosque to the Monrovia City hall, where an indoor program will take place, commemorating this celebration of the World Hijab Awareness Day, which held under the theme; Unapologetic Hijabi.
According to Fatima Zahra Abounacar Maiga, Chairperson of the Liberia World Hijab day awareness Program, said the celebration aimed at creating awareness of the use of Hijab by female Muslims in the country, and to address the struggles of discriminations among the public concerning the wearing of hijab.
Makoma F. Donzo, President of the Liberia Muslim Women Network (LMW- NET), said Hijab is the pride of female Muslims, and that its use must be practised as such, Madam Donzo, told the LPR-TV in a presser on Monday, January 30, 2023, ahead of the World Hijab Day Awareness Celebration that the Hijab is not just a piece of cloth to be worn; it is rather a religious costume that symbolises modesty and chastity in the society.”
Every year February 1, Muslims Women around the world, to celebrate the World Hijab day to galvanise support for hijab wearers, campaign against its prohibition, and speak against the maltreatment of its wearers across the world, and Liberia is no exceptions to the celebration.
Speaking further Makoma F. Donzo, President of the Liberia Muslim Women Network (LMW- NET), reiterated the erroneous perception about the use of Hijab by female Muslims, and for that matter, Muslims must educate their female children, and other non- Muslims on the use of Hijab and its importance.
Fatima Zahra Abounacar Maiga, added that the wearing of Hijab by female Muslims is commitment and obligation to Allah, as a sign of purity and an understanding of the Islamic Religion.
She said these indirectly stop female Muslims from some certain acts of indisciplined behaviour, and also protect their dignity as female Muslim, Abounacar Maiga, at the same time urged the government to see hijab as a symbol of inclusiveness and freedom which needs to be protected.
Meanwhile, the WHD celebration was initiated a decade ago by Nazha Matan, a Bangladeshi-American who was discriminated against in her school in the United States of America for wearing Hijab.
