A hijab-wearing Muslim is now one of the beautiful faces of CoverGirl

[mwrguy]

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Hijab is more mainstream all the time. Go and cry, Islamophobes!

(CNN)A Muslim, hijab-wearing woman is now one of the easy, breezy and beautiful faces of CoverGirl.

The cosmetics company announced beauty blogger Nura Afia as one of the latest brand ambassadors for its "So Lashy" mascara, meaning she, along with a diverse lineup of other models, will appear in CoverGirl commercials and on a billboard in Times Square.

For Afia, a Muslim woman in hijab representing a mainstream US cosmetics brand, is a milestone for the Muslim community.

"It's a big accomplishment for all of us," Afia told CNN. "It means that little girls that grew up like me have something to look up to. I grew up feeling like hijab would hold me back."

If that was ever the case, it seems like the hijab certainly isn't holding Afia back now.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/us/cover-girl-muslim-afia-trnd/

[lillypaddle]

1. Nice

[NBachers]

3. I fall in love so easily . . .

[MFM008]

5. Beautiful

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[mwrguy]

6. Hillary Clinton should invite her to the inauguration.

[maxsolomon]

35. No link

please attach the CNN link per DU rules.

[mwrguy]

37. Thanks for the reminder

Not sure how I missed that.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/us/cover-girl-muslim-afia-trnd/

[maxsolomon]

16. ANOTHER mwrguy pro-hijab thread!

you're not persuading anyone besides the DU Hijab Defense League that they're more "mainstream", whatever that means.

this development reflects the obvious fact that Muslim women wear makeup, and Covergirl wants to sell them makeup. whoop de doo.

[Rex]

19. Haters are gonna hate.

SSDD.

[mwrguy]

30. It is especially sad to see such hate on here, though.

[Rex]

32. Been this way since day one.

Sad to say, but this is nothing new.

[romanic]

20. That's nice.

Too bad some Muslim women can't wear Covergirl in public, kind of hard to see blush or lipstick behind a veil or burka.

[GummyBearz]

21. I was half expecting a joke where the model was wearing the full face covering version

I suppose as long as a male relative escort is somewhere just of the picture everything is OK here

[JanMichael]

36. me too. "ooh! look at the eyes!"...

[snooper2]

22. What, no polls today? You slacking on us!

[mwrguy]

38. Have I posted a poll?

I don't remember doing so.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

24. Fair enough.

Wearing a ritual garment intentionally designed to avoid inspiring male lust, while simultaneously making yourself as beautiful as possible and appearing in photoshoots to that purpose, strikes me as a slightly weird combination, but if she wants to then she's not harming anyone.

[KittyWampus]

25. Why not? When I was a little girl, women had to wear hats and gloves.

[Lotusflower70]

26. Progress

What an incredible sight to see. She really is stunning. I love the diversity.

[Calculating]

29. The face of the oppressed

Just because she considers being oppressed normal, and has come to enjoy wearing this construct of patriarchy doesn't mean that it isn't oppressive The Hijab is absolutely a construct of patriarchy. It comes from the belief that women are inherently temptresses, and they need to hide their beauty from men.

[mwrguy]

39. Free your mind

[davidn3600]

40. Just don't blame white American men for that particular oppression