Caption anyone?I find it interesting that wearing the niqab is presented in the article and by the women interviewed as a personal decision on the part of individual women, who seem to be making that decision in isolation from their husbands, parents, or peers. That is not totally convincing. The Wahhabi mosques and preachers surly play an important role in presenting the niqab as an option for these women. They should be an important part of any investigation of the niqab.
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Those women interviewed didn't sound very convincing to me, either. I wonder the article didn't mention the possibility of these women wearing the niqab because of other factors.
Maybe a niqab would help you eat an apple more delicately?
I'm not convinced.
Niqab is not part of islam,period..
I wonder why they call it "niqab"? I noted that some quoted in the article wear it for solidarity. They trying to say, we also are Afghani women, and we do not necessarily need your sympathy--we are not oppressed and do not need B52 to liberate us...things like that. Why do you say to that question of solidarity? It's disarming.
For all these women the niqab is not a niqab. It is something else, an identity, a locality, a home, a practice, a symbol of piety, etc. If infused with all these structures of feeling and being, how could it be easily discarded in favor of an assimilating British dress code?
Always, the hijab or niqab is good food for thought but there are no answers, only sour grapes!
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