I do not judge people for having different choices than me then why should others judge me for following my faith?
People called that extreme, they still do, but then it’s my life at the end of the day, isn’t it? But I was always certain of one thing – I did not want to lose my identity for a degree, an identity that I chose for myself. When I entered law school, I had a really hard time blending in. Soon thereafter, I started wearing hijab. To cope this, I started reading about Islam as an escape from the pessimism that was taking over me. When I was in the eleventh standard I had career anxiety which led to mental unrest.
Interestingly, through my own understanding of feminism, I’d say that most of them, and by most I mean almost every one of them, is a feminist. I have known so many Muslim girls and women in my life and I’ve noticed that most of them choose to wear hijab. I was born in a Muslim household, got educated in an Islamic school, and then went to a minority institution.
