# Iraqi Biology Teacher Responds to Backlash Over Her Niqab

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117715564768686100
- Source account: [@Laws70](https://x.com/Laws70)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:31
- Published: 2026-11-03
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab) So all this attacking and smearing is happening to me because I'm a teacher who wears a niqab. Of course, I'm a sixth- year science- track biology teacher. I posted a lecture on YouTube, a free lecture for sixth- year students with an explanation of the curriculum.

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=12) Then I was shocked to find myself under attack, with a smear campaign against me and my niqab.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=17) Of course, they even went so far as to accuse me of terrorism and extremism because I wear a niqab, though of course, I have nothing to do with any of that.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=24) I'm teaching a science subject, providing science lessons, helping students, making their exams easier, and I have nothing to do with terrorism or anything else.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=33) My father is a military man, and two of my uncles are martyrs.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=36) They gave their lives and blood in service of Iraq, so why is this smear campaign being waged against me, and why am I being accused? All I did was give a free lecture explaining the students' curriculum for the sixth year. Thanks to God, the lecture reached 140,000 views in two days,

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=51) to the point that it started trending Across the Arab world, not just in Iraq.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=55) There are even people from other countries who left positive comments for me, even professors at Egyptian universities praising the way I explained things.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=64) But my own countrymen unfortunately, attacked me.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=66) This whole smear campaign against me happened because they know I could have a positive influence on the next generations in some way, and they don't want that.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=75) They only want silly and negative things to influence this generation and this society.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=79) I'm grateful to everyone who supported me, stood by me, and defended me without my asking them to. That alone is enough for me, I swear to God.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/T6lYg7fQNb0p/en/iraqi-biology-teacher-responds-to-backlash-over-her-niqab?t=86) And in the end, I say, “If you feel no shame, do as you wish.”