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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was googling and I found this preview by Mona Eltahawy, page 32 starts to talk about hijabs and brings up a lot of the points brought up in this thread:

https://books.google.com/books?id=0v-cBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Most importantly to some pps, she's not white!

It's not "neocolonialism" to look at a backwards practice and decide it's backwards.  Being white does not mean you are precluded from making any observations ever.

-non white person[/quote]

Google wouldn't show me page 32, but I found this NYT op-ed piece by Mona Eltahawy.  One thing she says is that while the decision to wear the hijab is pretty easy, the decision to stop wearing it is much more difficult owing to family pressure. She wore a hijab for nine years, eight of which she spent trying to stop wearing it.

Since she'd outed herself on being an ex-hijaby she has met many women who wear a hijab who have sought her advice on how to stop wearing one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/opinion/mona-eltahawy-my-unveiling-ceremony.html[/quote]

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