LONDON – Receiving another hate comment on social media, Nadiya Hussain, the 2015 winner of The Great British Bake Off, responded brilliantly to a troll who left a hate comment on her hijab.
It all started when a magazine tweeted out a picture of Hussain and her family.
The family that bakes together @BegumNadiya with her husband, Abdal, & children, Maryam, Dawud & Musa in @TheSTHome https://t.co/akG4CVy8VH pic.twitter.com/OsOkD9WsGe
— Sunday Times Home (@TheSTHome) July 23, 2017
Trolling her hijab, the man asked why Hussain’s husband wasn’t wearing one too.
Why doesn’t the man have heavy fabric tightly wrapped around his head and neck.
— Nick_Zen (@Nick_Zen) July 23, 2017
She did not leave his question unanswered, giving him a witty response right on point.
I don’t think that pink would suit my husband https://t.co/Egig1xZa7K
— Nadiya Jamir Hussain (@BegumNadiya) July 23, 2017
Even though people continued to attack her online after her response, calling it “a quirky joke that doesn’t even begin to address the misogyny of the hijab,” Hussain didn’t back down and kept on slaying with perfect responses.
Not often you burn something Nadiya – well done for doing it so well 🙂
— Julie Carpenter (@Jorekai) July 23, 2017
Maybe you can ask the same question for other gender religion differences ?! ? We’ve got all day ? pic.twitter.com/4KXQVmqc0A
— crimecaper (@crimecaperuk) July 23, 2017
Might want to ask this lady the same thing… pic.twitter.com/MedmUxPOAV
— Yas (@Yas2999) July 23, 2017
Hussain, a second generation British Bangladeshi Muslim mother, won the popular series in 2015.
Since winning Bake Off, Hussain has appeared in her own series, The Chronicles Of Nadiya.
She is set to launch her new BBC TV show, Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, on 17 July and will release a book of the same name alongside it.
Hussain will also host the BBC Two series The Big Family Cooking Showdown with Zoe Ball and judges Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli this autumn.