"There are many women like me, who don't wear a veil. So long as it's a choice. I have nothing against the veil and I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now as long as a woman chooses to wear a veil because of her belief and because of her own personal relationship with God, she should be free to dress whichever way she wants and we should be smarter than to apply more meaning to a symbol of clothing than we should. All over the world there are many symbols of dress, many ways of prayer, etc. We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes," Queen Rania said, when speaking about leaders who put pressure on women to dress in a particular way through religion or society, in a 2008 interview with Fareed Zakaria.