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Volunteering for the veil

Shelina Begum
11/10/2006

SHELINA Begum, chief reporter on our sister paper the Asian News, spent the day wearing a full veil - the niqab. Here she tells us her experiences ...


 

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   Several years ago whilst doing training for work in Leicester, I came into "contact" with two Asian women wearing veils. As I knew there was nothing in the Koran that said muslim women should wear veils, I thought these women practised a religion I knew nothing about. I was indeed uncomfortable talking to them.
Bill Bradbury, Eastern Europe - born in Oldham
20/10/2006 at 16:01
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