Published: February 6, 2021 BLOOMSBURG CARA, the Cultural and Religious Alliance, is observing National Hijab Day with a rescheduled drive-through takeaway event to share food and.
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Published: February 2, 2021 BLOOMSBURG CARA, the Cultural and Religious Alliance, is observing National Hijab Day this year with a drive-through takeaway event to share food and.
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“Through the years, we’ve had non-Muslim women share with us their own experience with the hijab. Their stories ranged from those of finding quiet empowerment under the veil, to stories of being discriminated against because of a piece of cloth they they’ve decided to wear,” Sangcopan said in a privilege speech.
Sangcopan, vice chairperson of the House Committee on Muslim Affairs, stressedt aht wearing the hijab is neither “an obligation nor an act of oppression” but is in fact, “an act of empowerment and conscious decision among women, regardless of faith, that amount to a change in today’s world where discrimination has become rampant and universal, prejudice and cruel.”
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The vice chairperson of the House Committee on Muslim Affairs cited that the House Committee on Muslim Affairs has already endorsed the plenary approval of House Bill No. 8249, which aims to promote an understanding of the Muslim tradition of wearing a hijab.
“I am urging the House Committee on Rules to calendar the bill for plenary discussion when Congress resumes session on Jan. 18.We’ve been waiting for the passage of the National Hijab Day,” she said in a Viber message.
“The same bill was approved in the House of Representatives on third and final reading last Congress. I am hoping this time, it passes into law,” she added.