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Iowa Reporter First To Wear Hijab On Air

Hijab
2018-02-25 by Hafiz M. Ahmed

An Iowa and Illinois television reporter has become the first woman to wear a hijab on air full time for a mainstream American TV station, the Muslim American Women in Media group told the Des Moines.

Tahera Rahman, reporter at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois, which covers northwestern Illinois and southeastern Iowa, recently moved to a reporter slot at the after spending two years as an off-air producer, the newspaper said.

Rahman, 27, told the Register she was determined to live her dream as a television reporter, even though some told her through the years that she would find moving up in her image-conscious profession difficult because she wore the hijab as a Muslim woman.

“When people said it was going to be tough, I was just like, I know, but life is tough,” Rahman told the newspaper. “People live in places where it is hard to even practice journalism in general. I live in America, and I was born and raised with the values of equality and democracy and hard work getting you to your dream, to the American dream.”

The Article was Originally Published on https://www.newsmax.com

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    Hafiz Maqsood Ahmed is the Editor-in-Chief of The Halal Times, with over 30 years of experience in journalism. Specializing in the Islamic economy, his insightful analyses shape discourse in the global Halal economy.

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