Moroccan-Spanish Rapper Miss Raisa Faces Backlash After Removing Hijab

Originally from Tangier, Miss Raisa, 26, is a rapper who emerged three years ago, just before the lockdown. At the time, she had released her first songs that were a big hit on social media. Today, she has more than half a million followers. A few months ago, the young woman decided to remove her veil, a decision that sparked an avalanche of criticism and insults from Internet users who no longer considered her a Muslim. Harassed and threatened, she had to benefit from police protection, reports El Confidencial.

Miss Raisa, the mother of a daughter born from an arranged marriage, is now studying psychology, participates in radio shows and attends events like the recent Cultural Forum in Valladolid dedicated to hatred. This shows how much her voice counts in the media. "I like it when people don’t agree with me. But the problem is that hatred increases as you gain visibility and your message becomes more and more important. And managing it is not an easy task. You have to surround yourself with people who love you and stay in an environment that guarantees your safety, otherwise you can be psychologically affected," she explains.

The rapper confides to have lived a very difficult moment after her decision to remove the veil. "I had to change my daughter’s school, I knew there were police patrols next to my house... Humor also helped me a lot to cope with all this, otherwise I would have sunk into misery," she admits, adding that she has taken a step back to analyze the situation without passion and in a more rational way. "One of the things that saddens me is that in the end we never focus on the person but on what you wear... And yes, before I was the veiled woman, and now the one who has removed the veil. As an artist, I think I’m a human being and my intention is good," specifies Miss Raisa.

The young Moroccan shares the opinion of the writer Najat El Hachmi who is against the wearing of the veil by Muslim women