The Royal British Legion is selling a hijab covered in poppies for the first time in a bid to make it easier for Muslims to join in remembrance celebrations.
The headscarf is on offer at the charity’s website for £20, where it is described as ‘a symbol of remembrance that would appeal to British Muslims’.
It was first launched last year by a pair of smaller charities, but after they found themselves unable to cope with the demand they passed on responsibility to the Legion.
The hijab was created by a young Muslim fashion designer, who said she was keen to face down the small minority of Islamic radicals who spurn Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.
During the 2014 Poppy Appeal, the Islamic Society of Britain and the think-tank British Future started selling the hijab for £22.
They produced two runs of the garment, but each time they ended up selling out completely within just a week.
‘The response we got last year was very positive,’ a spokesman for British Future told MailOnline.
He added that the Royal British Legion, which orchestrates the Poppy Appeal to raise funds for injured servicemen, had agreed to start selling the hijab because it is more experienced in shifting large volumes of goods at this time of year.
The charity cut the price by £2 in a bid to boost sales, with an extra surcharge for express delivery.
Designer Tabinda-Kauser Ishaq, 25, was a student at the London College of Fashion at the time she created the hijab, which depicts hundreds of poppies on a light blue background.
She said last year: ‘I thought it was a really simple and clean way of saying that I’m very proud of being British and Muslim without it being in anyone’s face.’
A study by British Future found in 2013 that over 1 million Muslims living in Britain wear a poppy to mark Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day.
The groups behind the hijab also stressed that around 400,000 Muslim soldiers, most from what was then British India, fought for the Allies during the First World War.
However, a handful of jihadi groups have previously tried to hijack the commemoration of war by burning poppies in public because they view them as a sign of British militarism.