Hijabi Gone Global

20/04/2020

Lake Manyara was the last national park we visited out of 8(!) national parks. So I’m not gonna lie, to finally be DONE with safari’s was good! During our visit in Lake Manyara I was still sick and most of my time I spend half asleep in the van waiting for my husband to tell me to look outside 🐘🦓🦁 It was such a beautiful and different national park and despite the circumstances I did love the safari trips - and especially the ones we had with 😍 ! 🤪 @ Lake Manyara

12/08/2019

EID MOUBAREK EVERYONE FROM THE MOUNTAIN VILLAGES IN MOROCCO🌟
I hope you all have had a lovely eid yesterday or today. Ps. These pictures are taken by my husband 🙈 This mosque should be an UNESCO heritage site, it’s said to be 800 years old and is still used as a mosque today. How can we add it to the list? 😂😇 @ Adouz, Al Hoceima, Morocco

24/01/2019

Right now on my Instagram story I asked the question: why people find it so hard to love themselves just the way they are?
I would love to hear your thought, either through the instagram story or on the comment section below 😊

Love yourself like you're not waiting for someone else to do it 🙌🥰

17/01/2019

This is the challenge we all should really worry about.

28/12/2018

Friends that pray together, stay together 🙌🏽💫

23/12/2018

Salaaams, I can’t believe it have been a month since I posted on my feed. Sorry guys, I promise it won’t be long again 🙌🏽 I hope you’re all doing fine and maybe enjoying a Christmas holiday? 🤩

22/11/2018

N A T U R E ☘️ • 🇩🇰 @ Møns Klint

16/11/2018

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12/11/2018

It’s been raining all day in Copenhagen today 🧐 Summer, where are you?

22/10/2018

Guess where the US ranks? This list of the most dangerous and safest places to live might surprise you.

16/10/2018

“End of a holiday is always sad” - True or wrong?

04/10/2018

What a disgrace!!!!

A spokesperson for Airbnb said, “As soon as we learned about this terrible incident, we removed the host from our community and offered the guest our full support.”

26/09/2018

“To taste life’s fruits, you have to go out of your comfort zone” 😇 Who can relate to this? I sure can, sometimes I’m waaay too comfortable in my inner zone 😜 @ Rouadi, Al Hoceima, Morocco

25/09/2018

Don’t yearn for that which was never yours. If Allāh didn’t give it to you, it probably wasn’t good for you💫

17/09/2018

My first time in a Watermelon and honeydew-melon field 😛 @ Parc National d'Al-Hoceima

11/09/2018

A cathedral and a mosque, side by side, in an Islamic country. The right to practice a religion does not only find place in western countries. To all the small minded people (racists); TRAVEL and you’ll become more wise! 👋🏽🚀 @ Tangier, Morocco

26/08/2018

I’m going back home, after 7 weeks holiday 😎🤩 Let a new chapter begin 👌🏽📚🤓

25/08/2018

Zainab Merchant, I feel so sorry that you had to go through that! Also for other hijabis and other minorities who go through this bu****it everytime they’re traveling.

I really wish this was a joke, but sorry guys it is not. Hijabis are getting more and more victimized, just by wearing a garnet shiver their head! 😓 I mean, how is THIS even okay to ask for!? Never have I ever experienced or heard of someone else experiencing something so horrific that they had to check what’s inside their clothes.

I’ve been in many airports, and therefore been through many security-controls, just like any other travelers. Mostly I don’t get pulled aside because I don’t “alarm” so they just let me go through.

But only last month at Nice airport, the security officer had to body-check us (my sister and I). The security-thing, that every traveler have to go through, did not make an alarm. But still the security-officer had to use that hand-alarm-thing (no idea what it’s called) and further; use her hands on our body and underneath our hijab.

I was shocked that we had to go through all that just because we had a piece of cloth covering our hair.

I just had to ask the security officer: “Why do you have to do all this?” She did reply; “because you’re wearing a hijab”
“So you should only check what’s under my hijab not my whole body since I didn’t alarm”.

She didn’t have any answer, and just said: “I’m Muslim too”
I kindly replied that it’s not her that I’m questioning, it’s a stupid rule since we’ve never heard of a Hijabi doing anything “terroristic” (if that’s even a word).

On my next airport control in Barcelona, the security-officer only checked my Hijab, which is FINE! I don’t mind!

This is only one incident out of many, let’s not talk about what happened in the airport in Athens or Panama 😑 I will save those stories for another time 😝

Have you had any experience? I would like to hear what others are going through on their journeys!? 😇

Zainab Merchant said that after the horrifying incident, airport officials refused to give her their names and badge numbers so she would not be able to ...