I never thought that I will be writing about the same topic twice, but this is a topic which turns heads and minds daily- and it does the same to me!

In my office, I'm the only one who is wearing the head cover- and it is perfectly okay because the rest aren't Muslims and I respect all of them. I, in fact, fell in love with them as they are so nice and respectful.

When I first started, our office had only 10 employees- including my self. We were only two ladies in the office; a lady from the UK and my self. During the last two months our office started to hire a lot of people.

We grow from 2 ladies to 3- and some time a go the GM interviewed another lady for the position of a receptionist. She is from my country and covered... The GM- being all nice- thought it would be nice to introduce her to me (before even offering the job to her) just to make her feel at home and to get my feed back on her personality too!! When I saw her I was happy that I will have a covered girl with me. I don’t know why I felt this way, but maybe it is something inside each one of us that makes us all craving to attaché our selves to a group! So, I talked to her and I liked her.

A couple of weeks later they offered her the job and asked her to come to the company in order to sign the contract; she came- when she walked from the front door, our Marketing assistant was next to me and she gave me a weird sign- as if she was saying "someone is covered” or “some one took off a cover" and I wasn't sure about it so I didn't give it much attention. I went to pray- and while I was walking back to the office I saw the GM and he looked astonished... I couldn't tell why. I saw someone standing with the marketing assistant and talking to her- so I just passed by them and I didn't say a word. I heard someone saying "hello".. So I looked back and I actually gazed until I knew that she was the same covered (uncovered now) girl that I met some time a go. I said "hello" and we chatted for a while- and the question "why- why - why??" kept knocking the door but I couldn't ask her the question.

I can't explain why she took off her veil- and I’m not in a position to judge any one about that- but I swear to God it was embarrassing.

This same event took place in our university too but different girl with a different scenario of course. One of my professors back then –who was teaching that girl as well- asked me "will you be taking off your veil too at some point in time" and I didn't know what to say.. so I smiled and said "in another life maybe- but not in this one!!".

What kind of a message are we giving the "other" about us- about our religion and about our veil? Is it cosmetics- I wear it when I feel like it and take it off when I don't? To me this is big- and I keep getting shocked in several occasions by girls who does that.

I quote the Holy Quran at the end "وكان الإنسان أكثر شئ جدلا "

May God protect us all.

Regards,

H.