Dear Readers Meet Senator Fatima Payman

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Aug 30, 2022 at 02:57

Dear Readers, Meet Senator Fatima Payman. She is trailblazer. She is the first Hijab wearing member of Australian Parliament. Of course, she is a Muslima. She speaks English in a perfect Australian accent.

From the very first day in the parliament, she devoted herself to serving Islam, Hijab, and, as a cover, she also devoted herself to the cause of diversity. Her very first speech in the parliament was quite in-your-face. It went viral instantaneously (https://youtu.be/N2xZbIwcQgA). In this speech she told people that if they could wear flipflops, she
could wear a Hijab. Makes perfect sense. Flip flops and Hijab are equivalent and both are equally gender-neutral and neither has any religious connotation.

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Payman is also very young (just 27). And, she is a quintessential Australian. As soon as she arrived in Australia, her father admitted her to an Islamic school. In fact, she even did her university education in a Muslim college in Western Australian. What can be wrong in that?

Fatima Payman criticized the Taliban but did not apologize that most of the Muslim nations are non-democracies and oppose all religions other than Islam. She never told us what she thought about Q5-33, or Q8-12 or Q9:5.

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