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Egypt to launch TV channel with fully-veiled
women
Thursday July 12, 2012 12:26:34 PM,
AKI
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Cairo:
A new satellite TV channel managed completely by women donning the
niqab or the full veil will begin broadcast in Egypt July 20, the
first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramandan.
"It will be the most viewed during the month-long Ramadan," said
Maria TV owner Abu Islam Ahmad Abdallah.
The channel's name is a reference to Maria, the wife of Muslim
prophet Maometto.
The idea for the channel came from "discrimination" against women
who wear the niqab, he said.
"A veiled woman applied for work at a TV channel but didn't get
the job. How come in that environment women wearing the niqab are
victims of discrimination?" he said.
"For this reason, I decided to start a channel and help pave their
way in the hope that others follow my lead," Abdallah said.
The owner of the station says he is reacting to an Egyptian media
establishment which claims to support democracy, but does not
accept divergence of opinion.
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