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Originally Posted by Maram
Edit: And I think I ought to mention that a great number of young men and women in the middle east are choosing to be more conservative than their more liberal parents. Probably thanks in part to growing Anti-Western sentiment and growing nationalism. So it's not too hard to find a girl in Egypt who will observe in hijab or even niqab (( veiling the face)) where her mother may not even wear the hijab.
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This is so common in Indonesia, The young choosing the veil/abaya, (especially the university educated, though it is becoming more common amongst the upper middle class young women), whereas their mothers/grandmothers don't wear any veiling except of course when they go to the mosque.
I understand what you are saying Tribaldancer in regards to be forced/ordered to wear hijab etc. I hate the fact that Australia has a law that says I HAVE to go out and vote if I don't I get fined. I don't mind registering as is also required by law, but resent being ordered to go and vote in local and national elections, even if there isn't one single person I am willing to vote for. So much for democracy and free choice! Mind you that law is for everyone not just women. So here we have this compulsory voting law but young women are allowed to wear hijab to school/uni/work, thank goodness the law embraces the differences in cultures and religions. Schools accommodate with the school uniform girls who wish to wear hijab. The same goes for boys/men of the sikh religion, they are allowed to wear their turbans and Jewish boys the skull cap. I know various countries have said no to religious attire and I believe that is very unfair, and discriminatory.
~Mosaic