{"id":6128,"date":"2015-10-09T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T07:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T07:49:53","slug":"uk-veiled-chef-named-star-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/uk-veiled-chef-named-star-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Veiled Chef Named Star Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nadiya\"<\/a>A hijabi Muslim has been crowned as Great British Bake Off queen after beating her two male competitors, defusing the negative stereotypical discourse surrounding Muslim women.
\n\u201cI\u2019m never going to put boundaries on myself ever again,\u201d the Great British Bake Off winner, Nadiya Jamir Hussain, said in her victory speech, The Sun reported on Thursday, October 8.
\n\u201cI\u2019m never going to say \u2018I can\u2019t do it\u2019. I can. And I will.
\n\u201cI really hope that I have not become known more for my facial expressions or my eyebrows than my baking.\u201d
\nThe Muslim baker won the judges praise with her iced buns, mille-feuille and lemon drizzle wedding cake.
\nNaming Nadiya Satr Baker, BBC1 judges stressed that she deserves to win.
\n\u201cI am really proud of Nadiya, not so confident to start with, but over the weeks she has grown in confidence,\u201dpresenter Mary Berry told Mirror.
\n\u201cThe finished result had to wow us and Nadiya\u2019s Showstopper was stunning. Sheer perfection and I have enjoyed every minute.\u201d
\nOn his part, Judge Paul Hollywood said: \u201cNadiya has brought something special to the Bake Off. Her ideas, flair, her emotions and her passion were all in her bakes, she just nailed the whole final. That was the best tasting final we have ever had.\u201d
\nSpending every second ahead of the two-day final in tuning her bakes, Nadiya said that she was left physically shattered.
\n\u201cI practiced so much at home before the final, right through the night and even in the morning before I was going to catch my train I squeezed in another practice.
\n\u201cI was absolutely exhausted before the last two days of filming, because I had done so much practice at home, but I felt I had given myself the best chance to fight for my place. I was pretty tired but high on the adrenaline of what I had achieved so far.\u201d
\nNadiya, who is of Bangladeshi heritage, feared being dismissed by viewers before the semi-final because of not being a stereotypical British person.
\nA few days later, praised the positive response she got after appearing at the BBC1 cookery program, saying that it has shown how \u201ctolerant\u201d and \u201caccepting” British society is.
\nIslam is the second largest religion with results from the United Kingdom Census 2011 giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as 2,786,635, 4.4% of the total population.
\nIslam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one’s affiliations.
\nLast May, an American Muslim woman became the first ever veiled female chef to appear on an American primetime cooking show after joining this season’s Masterchef contest on Fox, breaking down negative stereotypes on veiled women.<\/p>\n

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