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Sunday 12 Apr 2015 - 11:18 Makkah mean time-23-6-1436  Nour seeks to become the first Hijabi anchor on commercial TV in the U.S (Image from pinterest.com ) Southern Maryland, US (IINA) - A Libyan-American Muslim woman growing up in southern Maryland, seeks to be the first-ever veiled anchor on commercial television in America, defying the stereotyped image of the Muslim women in the mainstream media, media news reported.
"I grew up knowing that I wanted to be a reporter and basically have a way to tell stories," Muslim journalist Noor Tagouri said in a video cited by the Huffington Post on Friday.
The 21-year-old journalist Tagouri was finally able to fulfill her dream after launching her social media campaign #LetNoorShine, in 2012, to encourage herself and others to pursue their dreams.
There have been so many times where I have been knocked down, where people told me I wasn't going to be able to do it, where people in the newsroom that I was interning at would go behind my back... saying, 'Who does she think she is? Does she not know that this isn't going to happen for her?'" Tagouri says.
"But they don't realize that this generation, right now, is an upcoming generation. Things are changing. People are going to get used to it. People... want diversity; they want to understand each other."
CBS Radio's community and public affairs director, Justine Love, agreed. She had seen an 18-year-old Tagouri give a spoken word performance on World AIDS Day several years ago and offered the journalism major an internship right on the spot. What Tagouri considers especially divine about that experience is the fact that she had prayed for professional guidance less than 24 hours earlier.
With that CBS Radio internship, Tagouri's journalism career began to take off.
"Literally, that internship changed my life," Tagouri says. "That was the start of when #LetNoorShine was starting and when things just started falling into place. It was opportunity after opportunity, and it was just from that guidance, just from that prayer."
Proudly wearing the hijab, Tagouri has about 89,000 followers on her official Facebook page.
A US survey recently has revealed that the majority of Americans know very little about Muslims and their faith. Another Economist/YouGov poll found that a large majority of Americans believe that US Muslims are victims of discrimination amid recent attacks against the community.
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