Nomia Iqbal presented today’s show on BBC Asian Network which spoke about racial discrimination as well as the lack of representation seen at Dubai Modest Fashion Week. The show featured Najwa Umran who started the campaign #BlackMuslimahExcellence and Halimat Shode, founder of The Black Muslim Times.

At 2:55 Nomia said,”This might be a provocative question but I’d be interested to know what your answers are, do you think you can be Black and Muslim?”. And of course, Twitter came with it.

im just trying to understand why this bbc journalist asked if you can be black and muslim 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 pic.twitter.com/gzWTaW3fiR

— ikran (@ikran) December 19, 2017

https://twitter.com/AyoOlatunji96/status/943103114068062208

Najwa who was on the show talking about #BlackMuslimahExcellence, as well as the other guests was dumbfounded by the question.

https://twitter.com/_poelitical/status/943120474640408577

https://twitter.com/MuniPilgrim/status/943110924960968704

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Nomia has since responded with the following tweet:

https://twitter.com/NomiaIqbal/status/943154095199801344