28 May 2010

Spain/Norway/Switzerland: Veil stories

.... Zeina spoke to Swiss newspaper Blick. The woman was married to a fundamentalist Muslims. He forced her to put on a niqab. For the young woman it was torture.

"Suddenly I wasn't more than a kind of shadow without name or identity. I also lost my face," says Zeina. When her husband gave her the garment as a 'gift', she refused to put it on. "Because I knew that there was no way back. If you wear the veil once, than you have no choice any more." [Islam in Europe] Read more