Muslim woman – oppression, honour killing, genital mutilation, forced marriage… that’s too often the dominant portrayal of Muslim women in the media.

It's a small thing but I noticed the Guardian used a photo of a hijabi school girl to illustrate a section on Education - it makes a change to see Muslims represented in a normal context, where they just happen to be Muslim, rather than where being Muslim is the issue. I dropped the Guardian a short email to letters and reader's editor, and the next day it was published in the Guardian Letters page.

How refreshing to see an image of a hijab-wearing Muslim girl chosen for the normal, everyday, context of education (Report, July 31), rather than exclusively reserved for the "problems" with which we are more usually associated in the wider media. Maybe one day there'll be more media images of Muslims in soap operas and adverts than flag-burning protests and police mugshots.
Catherine Heseltine
London

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