Newsnight: Why are Muslim women choosing to wear a niqab?

Published by You on 2 September, 2010 - 05:27

Why are more British Muslim women opting for the face veil?

Increasing numbers of British Muslim women are choosing to wear the face veil. Two of those women explain to Newsnight why they adopted the niqab when their mothers did not.

Read their accounts and watch the video

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Submitted by s.b.f on 2 September, 2010 - 14:54

Change the title of this thread to: why are Muslim women choosing to wear a niqab or something

It empowers me because when I talk I believe I have a voice, I have an opinion, I'm my own person - my own personality comes across, and when people talk to me, they don't... think 'she's looking like this, she's looking like that,' so my voice comes across and people are judging me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

I dont see this at all.

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