This has led to a distinction between the hijab literally "covering up" in Arabic and the niqab meaning "full veil". The hijab is typically a scarf that covers the hair and neck, whereas the niqab is a veil for the face that leaves the area around the eyes clear. It is worn with an accompanying headscarf or an abaya , a full-length robe, and sometimes with a separate transparent eye veil.
The burka is the most concealing - covering the entire face and body, leaving just a mesh screen to see through. The "majority of the women who wear the burka" she says, are born and brought up in Britain. They are "educated in this country, they've been to colleges, universities, and have understood why they want to do what they're doing," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
It's not an obligation. It's a spiritual thing more than anything else. She is "not under an obligation" to cover her face but does so because it is "emulating" the Prophet Muhammad. So, how does she respond if asked to remove her covering for security reasons? It's quite painful [to hear]. In , BBC News' Shaimaa Khalil wrote about why she stopped wearing her headscarf, only to put it back on again when she became the Pakistan correspondent.
She said the number of women wearing them in the West is increasing in part because girls begin to wear them before they reach puberty and many were not given a choice. Muslim scholars have long debated whether it is obligatory to wear the burka or niqab, or whether it is just recommended. There have also been more liberal interpretations which say any headscarf is unnecessary, as long as women maintain the sartorial modesty stipulated in the Koran.
That holy text addresses "the faithful women" who are told to shield their private parts and not to display their adornment "except what is apparent of it". Scholarly disputes revolve around what this last phrase means. Does it refer to the outer surface of a woman's garments, necessitating that she cover every part of her body - ie don the full niqab?
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Too many young African-Australians are in jail. Then came the explosive showdown. Site Map. Media Video Audio Photos. Subscribe Podcasts Newsletters. Connect Contact Us. Yet despite this, and with no data on burqa wearers, it is following the Netherlands with plans to implement a partial burqa ban. In the UK, there are no available numbers on how many women wear the burqa but the figures are likely to correspond to the low, virtually immeasurable European figures.
For now, however, there do not appear to be any legislative plans to ban the burqa in Britain. It is highly questionable whether the microscopic figures of women who wear the burqa has warranted the inordinate amount of focus, time and cost that has been put into scrutinising it.
Fears surrounding the burqa are unfounded and based on perceptions of it posing a threat, despite no evidence of this. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Many women also say that the burqa isn't a tool of subjugation at all, but rather a means for equality. This is because they aren't judged on their appearance , and they are liberated from unwelcome advances and objectifying leers.
Choosing to wear the burqa or hijab, instead of being forced to do so, is a matter of freedom of expression. That said, women who wear hijab sometimes face discrimination or acts of hostility and violence based on Islamophobia. Another reason women say they continue to wear the veil is for purposes of group identity.
It's a badge of honor, solidarity, and ethnic pride in a world that often values Eurocentric beauty standards and cultural assimilation.
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