Hijabbed Harlots: An Egyptian Tries To Discourage The Wearing Of The Hijab

Paid ladies, strutting their stuff, he says, wear the hijab — or even go with the full niqab. And thus, far from being a guarantee of modesty and purity, might be considered the sign of someone who is attempting to hide her harlotry. In the attempt to reverse the fashion of wearing the hijab (in Egypt, in the 1950s, no one but the most primitive rural women did), there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

 

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