DOHA: A Qatari businessman’s daughter has offered to pay $ 137,000 for the headscarf which led a Turkish Islamist deputy to lose her seat in parliament and her citizenship, newspapers reported recently. Maryam bint Ali bin Sultan al-Ali told the Arabic press that she wanted to help Merve Kavakci, 31, a deputy from Istanbul of the Islamist Virtue Party. She has put up a price of $ 137,000 saying the scarf had become a “symbol of Sharia,” or Islamic law. Kavakci defied the anti-Hijab majority in parliament and caused an uproar by showing up for the swearing-in ceremony on May 2 wearing her Islamic-style headscarf, a garment banned from Turkish schools, universities and public offices.