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Thursday 05 Feb 2015 - 14:43 Makkah mean time-16-4-1436  New York, (IINA) - For the first time in its three-year run, Sunday's World Hijab Day became a trending topic on social media as women supported the effort in events worldwide and shared images of Hijab and beauty, tagged #WorldHijabDay.
World Hijab Day is an annual event that fell this year on February 1.
"Covering up should be a free choice! I may not be Muslim or religious but I support the beauty a hijab can bring to a woman," said one woman who shared an image through the World Hijab Day website, CNN reported.
Nazma Khan, a Muslim woman who moved from Bangladesh to New York at age 11, the headscarf for her is a symbol of her religious belief in beauty through modesty.
"Modesty is part of our Islamic faith," Khan wrote in an email. "No one should be discriminated (against) for following their faith."
"Our goal is to foster global religious tolerance and understanding through hijab awareness. Many women get discriminated (against) simply because they choose to wear the hijab," Khan said. "Hopefully, this event will make people realize that women who wear the hijab are just like anyone else. They're not oppressed or are forced to wear it. They just simply want to follow their faith by being modest.
"We're from Sweden. My friend always uses Hijab so I really wanted to see what it was like. We went shopping and it didn't feel strange at all, I liked it. Great initiative on WHD's part. "Ulrika from Sweden said.
This year, "ambassadors" in 33 countries organized World Hijab Day events. Organizers in Canada, for example, invited the public to try on hijabs at a mall in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Kiran Malik-Khan, the organizer of that event, made the choice to start covering her head four years ago after a pilgrimage to Makkah.
"I did it because I wanted to do it. It's progress for me as a Muslim woman, the next step in my faith," said Khan (no relation to Nazma Khan).
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