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Originally Posted by Maram
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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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Today at the store, I was helped by a young woman in a niqab. I could tell even in our brief exchange that 1)she is an independent woman who does exactly what she chooses and, 2) she has no interest in "conforming" to anything (niqab is not the usual style around here).