"Busra Sayed, 27, is an entrepreneur: She sells and wears hijabs. She also wore a hijab from her own collection on the stage of the Miss Germany pageant. This drew a lot of attention in the German media, as Sayed was (alongside one other candidate) one of the two first women in the history of the competition to wear the Muslim headscarf."
"Just a few days later, the topic came up in the German parliament. In her speech on International Women's Day, Beatrix von Storch, a member of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), expressed her outrage: "A hijab in the Miss Germany finals. And this woman didn't just wear a hijab she's a true hijab activist. She's promoting them.""
"Von Storch ended by saying: "If having an Islamic activist like that participate in the Miss Germany finals is supposed to be progress, then we're living in Absurdistan and a very dangerous Absurdistan at that.""
"A few weeks later, in an interview with DW, Busra Sayed recalled how she felt when she saw the speech. "Actually, I wasn't shocked. I was even a little happy, because I thought to myself, there's really no better way to raise awarenes"
Busra Sayed, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who sells and wears hijabs, reached the final round of the Miss Germany pageant. She wore a hijab from her own collection on stage, becoming one of the first women in the competition’s history to wear the Muslim headscarf. The appearance drew significant German media attention and was raised shortly afterward in the Bundestag during International Women’s Day remarks by Beatrix von Storch of the AfD. Von Storch criticized Sayed as a hijab activist and warned against what she framed as dangerous progress. In response, Sayed described feeling not shocked, but happy, because the situation offered a way to raise awareness.
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