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Girls’ niqab assassinates their childhood, forces them toward early womanhood
Because of tradition, many girls start wearing veils right from their teenage years.
Little Muslim girls often are obliged to enter the world of female veiling due to societal traditions and/or family oppression.
But how do they view the world through this black-colored niqab (a thin cloth worn over the head and face)? And what is society’s view regarding such a phenomenon? Is it sympathetic toward their childhood or are girls in Yemeni society obliged to look like adults as early as possible in order to experience early marriage? This report seeks to answer these questions.
Eleven-year-old Ruba plays on the streets and alleys with her peers, whose clean, adorned hair flows uncovered down their backs while she wears her black school clothes (an abaya) and covers both her hair and face with a niqab.
Asked why she’s dressed this way, she replies, “My father oppresses me and obliges me to wear the niqab, which gives me a continuous headache and difficulty breathing when I’m studying in class.”
Ruba admits that she sometimes must remove it in class, but then she must put it on again as soon as she leaves school for fear of her father because, as she explains, “My father won’t allow me to go to school unless I wear it.”
Nine-year-old Hajar likewise is forced to wear the niqab by her father, who’s considered a conservative and religious man. He says he must do this out of worry for others’ opinion about his daughter.
Hajar says she hates to go out wearing the niqab. “People wonder when they see me walking on the street with my face and hair covered. Moreover, I like to play and be free, but I feel suffocated when I wear the niqab.”
Although she says she hates it, she must wear the niqab or her parents will punish her if she removes it. “I’m no longer able to play like I used to in the past. I even have to wear it when I leave my house to buy candy.”
She adds, “I hate everything black because black is the color of the niqab that my parents force me to wear, telling me that it’s shameful to go outside unveiled.
“My teachers also talk a lot about my parents’ wrongdoing against me. At school, I take it off only in class. When I return home, my father asks me if I removed it. I say ‘No’ in order to escape his punishment.”
These poor girls, in Saudi there was a little girls school that burned down in 2003 that the Muttawa (islamic religious police) let all the girls die inside, because they were not covered head to toe.
Read the entire story in the Yemen Times, it actually offers a glimmer of hope for little girls in Yemen.
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