Young Girl Slandered On Website By Social Media Users

By Jasmine Roziers
An 11-year-old girl, Jenna Al-Shammary became a national name after her performance in a theater play in Saudi Arabia. Al- Shammary sung the National Day song for the play but instead of praise, she received slander and hate on the popular social media website, Twitter. The reason for the uproar over Al-Shammary is because she went on stage to perform without her hijab. The young girl was also wearing red lipstick. The Twitter users expressed their outrage with comments such as calling the young girl "immodest". The girl's father gave his comments about the users slandering his daughter to the Saudi Gazette, “My daughter is a young girl! She’s not as old as was reported on the social media websites. Besides, she sang in front of senior government officials with other children,” the father said."