world hijab day

WORLD HIJAB DAY COMMEMORATION STARTED IN 2013, it is a day set aside for recognition of Muslimahs who wears hijab and had chose to live a modest life, on this day Muslimah and Non-Muslimah don the Hijab (the veil). The aim of this day is to create better awareness for the use of hijab, as well as helping in greater understanding thereby heralding a peaceful world, this is to help foster religious tolerance.
The hijab as it is, has different meanings to different people, some sees it as a symbol of segregation and oppression, but to most people that wear the hijab, citing myself as an example: MY HIJAB IS MY PRIDE, MY HIJAB MAKES ME MODEST, MY HIJABS COMMANDS RESPECT FOR ME IN THE LEAGUE OF FEMALES.

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At the 2015 edition of this celebration, I was invited by the CEO of House of Iman (@imanmodestwears) to come join muslimahs who are proud of the modesty their religions preach. The event was held DE-PAVILLION EVENT CENTRE, OLUYOLE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE IBADAN NIGERIA, with the theme:MY HIJAB MY PRIDE, lectures were delivered by Dr Fatimat Rufai and Sis Kafeelah Oyenuga, Islamic renditions by some top female islamic singers, cutting of the World Hijab Day cake, after which there was a presentations of muslimah attires from House of Iman.

Pictures from the event after cut.

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This day in #history 01/02

FEBRUARY 1ST

1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of
England, but the country is ruled by his mother
Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer .

1587 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death
warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

1948 – Federation of Malaysia forms from 9
sultanates

1972 – Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal
charter granted by the Yang di -Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.

1974 – Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal
Territory.

1978 – Harriet Tubman became the 1 st black woman honored on a US postage stamp

1982 – Senegal & Gambia form loose
confederation (Senegambia )

2009 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the
first female Prime Minister of Iceland , becoming
the first openly gay Head of State in the modern
world .

2013 – The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram
camp , killing 18 people

2013 – World Hijab day commemoration started

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1889 – Gertrude Caton- Thompson , British
archaeologist (Zimbabwe , So Arabia )

1931 – Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR