A woman was disgusted and hurt after one of her closest friends cruelly asked her not to wear her hijab to her wedding, saying it would offend her partner's "racist" family.
The 23-year-old woman, who is Muslim and lives in southern USA, recently went to her friend Sally's engagement party, and was having a great time, although she felt as if she was being watched by her friend's in-laws.
"I spent most of my time hanging out with a few friends, while Sally's in-laws kept looking at me oddly from the side of their eye. I tried not to take it to heart, and I ignored it," she wrote on Reddit's AITA forum.
"The next day, Sally called me to thank me for coming. I could tell she was nervous to say something, so I asked her to just spit it out. That's when she admitted that I made her in-laws uncomfortable, and as though they couldn’t freely talk with someone like me around.
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"I said sorry, her in-laws seem like blatant racists, but it’s not like I’m the one marrying them so if she likes them I hope she has a great wedding and I just won’t come. Now, Sally was expecting my help during the wedding, as I freelance as a make up artist, so she asked if I can just take off my hijab for the wedding and do her makeup while not 'scaring' her in-laws."
In disbelief at what her friend had just asked of her, the woman replied: "No way in f****** hell would I ever change myself or compromise my religion for a bunch strangers, and I won’t step foot near them as I’d hate to 'scare' them."
Sally was left feeling furious that she'd offended her future family and now the woman has been left questioning whether she was wrong to leave her without a makeup artist just a month away from the big day.
"No amount of make up can make a racist/Islamophobe/xenophobe look pretty," one Reddit user commented, while another added: "Your hijab is not an accessory that you feel like wearing some days and leaving out other days. What the actual heck Sally."
A third wrote: "I was hoping her solution was going to be... 'But I'm kicking out all of my in-laws from the bridal suite so you won't be uncomfortable.'
"She's mad at you???? Oh no, no, no. She owes you an apology. Plus she's not entitled to free makeup. That's officially her problem. Not yours. Don't feel guilty."
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