A Wise Decision by Muslim Journalist Noor Tagouri

She is waiting out the Playboy article blowback before commenting.

Among the “2016 Renegades” profiled in the October issue of Playboy magazine is Noor Tagouri, a 22-year-old D.C. based-reporter for Newsy. The accompanying photos of her wearing a hijab did not sit well with some of her fellow Muslims.

When Tagouri shared her seeming good PR fortune last week, it sparked social media outrage. Very wisely, the reporter subsequently tweeted that she would eventually respond, but only after “everyone gets the hate out of their systems and calms down for a second.”

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