Muslim model gets dropped from beauty campaign for wearing hijab

With a considerable surge in discriminatory acts faced by Muslims, one model has stepped forward to claim that the hijab on her head became the basis of her getting dropped out of a beauty campaign.

While talking to international media outlets, 25-year-old Mariah Idrissi revealed that she had faced discrimination at the hands of one of the outlets involved in a beauty campaign who thought she would “limit the audience because she’s Muslim.”

The model had earned herself a name after she became the first hijab-wearing woman to get featured in an H&M campaign in 2015.

“It was nothing to do with my personality, and just because I wore a hijab they thought their audience wouldn’t buy the product,” Mariah had stated during an interview.

The model added, “For me, it was like well I buy things that white girls are wearing, it makes no difference, so I was a bit shocked.”

Her comments had come to surface after Britain’s Vogue made history by featuring Halima Aden –the first hijab-wearing woman on its cover.

After Mariah’s H&M advertisement went public, she appeared in numerous other fashion magazines as well including Elle, Marie Claire and Teen Vogue.