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Canada Gets First Hijab Wearing News Anchor

Female television reporter makes history after becoming Canada’s first hijab-wearing news anchor

  • Ginella Massa, 29, anchored Toronto’s CityNews 11pm bulletin last week
  • TV reporter said she was the first Canadian anchor to wear a hijab on air
  • She was praised for anchor stint but was hit with some negative comments
  • Massa first started reporting on television in 2015 in Kitchener, Ontario 

    ‘I always wanted to work in broadcasting or media in some capacity, and my real desire was to be in front of the camera, but in the back of my mind I worried about whether I could make it very far in hijab,’ she said.

    ‘I don’t think I really believed it could be a viable career until I was at Seneca, and landed my first internship in a newsroom.

    ‘I realized this was something I could be good at, and that’s what pushed me to work really hard, in the hopes that someone would see past my hijab and give me a chance to show my skills.’

    Read more:

    This image made from a video provided by CityNews shows Ginella Massa, a Toronto TV reporter who is believed to be Canada’s first anchor to don a Muslim head scarf at one of the city's major news broadcasters. Massa, 29, said Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, that she became Canada's first hijab-wearing television news reporter in 2015 while reporting for CTV News in Kitchener, Ontario, a city west of Toronto. She moved back to Toronto, where she grew up, earlier this year to take a reporting job at CityNews. (CityNews via AP)

Somehow, I don’t think we’ll be seeing this on the Canadian Tee Vee. (Or the United States.)

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Why is that? Why is Islam special?

 

 

 

23 Comments on Canada Gets First Hijab Wearing News Anchor

  1. Hope whomever made the decision to roll over and go muzzy, loses a lot of viewers and gets fired. Appeasing to rag heads is the same thing as raising the white flag. If there are enough devil worshiping rag heads in that market, there are too many. Ship them back to their beloved shit holes in the middle east where they belong.

  2. This is one stage of boiling the frog.

    when smoking was not something only deplorables and rednecks did? Didn’t take long to vilianize smokers. Remembber when homosexuality was not celebrated, but was kept under wraps in the closet? Remember when Pedophelia was abhored and even pedopheliacs didn’t tout nam-boy love out in the open?
    Drip, drip, drip.

  3. I am getting sick of the “first this” or “first that”. Too often these “firsts” end up not being worth crap. I have long been uninterested in the Guinness Book of World Records.

  4. I’m not going to get too hung up on this as her face is visible. We have lots of women in the city that where a head covering who aren’t muslim. I would have a problem if she were wearing a niqab or full face veil as that is a sign of religious oppression that serves to take away a woman’s individuality. Besides, CityTV has become a nest of lefties and PC cranks who probably did this to jack up the ratings.

  5. Put a bag over her fukkin head, like “The Unknown Comic” of yesteryear.

    Save on makeup and the public won’t have to look at her shit-eating condescending grimace.

    Or send her ass back to Rag-Head-i-Stan.

    izlamo delenda est …

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