Washington: With number of Muslim men and women working in various fields of life, there is stands a girl who wants to make a difference in her life and create history in the field of broadcast journalism as being the first Hijabi woman newscaster. This girl is none other than American based Muslim Noor Tagouri who sets as an inspiration and motivator for other Muslim women who wish to pursue their dreams by remaining stick to the Islamic rituals.
Noor does not stand out as the only female Muslim newscaster in America but she wants to distinguish herself by setting way for other Muslim women to be on air with their own Islamic tradition, recognition of a Muslim lady, “observing Hijab”. Noor is a 19 year old, enthusiastic individual who wishes to accomplish her dreams and her set goals and for this purpose she has used the social networking sites as the medium to disseminate her message and gain immense support from the masses to outreach her voice.
In an American world that have always pictured Muslim woman as terrorist, coward, thief, outstanding and making people to identify your talent and earn a desirable position remains a challenge. This young lady strives to gain support, changing the vivid perception from the minds of Non-Muslims about Muslim women and set an example that how zeal, hard work and determination to pursue your goal can pay off.
She is symbol of “change” for the Muslim women. Through media platform she showed her intelligence, her smartness and discussed that how she wants to work towards changing the perception of a Muslim woman, who is generally thought of a downtrodden, backward individual, incapable of competing with men.
She has put many of her pictures on twitter and face book in which she portrays herself to be reporter. She has not yet been hired by any media organization but we may look forward towards some positive change. Let’s see if she can make a difference through her efforts or remains as an unrecognized talent like other Muslim women, whose talent are hidden behind the cameras and they remain unknown to people.
Nighat Hameed baig
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