William flew muslim women

The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in form this time on and forevermore."





“I’ve had to change my life because of this competition. I never go out on my own, I avoid going out late, I don’t drop off my friends at their houses. I avoid being in public 


places, I avoid going to the gym — I’ve ordered gym equipment for my home. I wear sunglasses when I go out and I wear a cap sometimes so that I can’t be recognised.”
Bukhari, one of seven children born to Pakistani immigrant parents, is an unlikely defender of women’s right to behave how they want. Her mother still wears the traditional 


Pakistani outfit of shalwar kameez and a loose-fitting headscarf — “not a proper tight thing”.
A frequent visitor to her aunts and cousins in Islamabad, Bukhari was to marry a fellow British Muslim — “it was done through the correct channels” — until she discovered, 


three years ago, that her intended was already entwined with a girl in Pakistan. “He cheated me and my family,” she says. “It taught me a lot.”
Now, at the ripe old age of 25, she would be happy for her parents to undertake a bit of matchmaking. “I think my mum would be the best to find someone for me. She could 


find me a perfect potential husband.”
Bemused by the hoo-ha of the past few weeks, she says her desire to take part in Donald Trump’s Miss Universe contest stems simply from a love of fashion, which took a 


back seat while she completed a degree in English literature at Bolton University. “Even as a 15-year-old I used to help with charity appeals at my school, and I used to do it 


through events like dancing and entertainment,” she recalls.
Now that her catwalk ambitions have been challenged, Bukhari has come out fighting, not only on behalf of Muslim women who want to sport swimwear on stage, but also in 


defence of the values that her parents taught her were needed for a harmonious life in multicultural Britain.