This is a report from a journalist in Egypt who found elementary school girls and young teen girls already wearing the niqab (a veil that covers the face). This is extreme islam at its worst - the reporter even called it " inhuman and alien .."
You really should read the whole story because it details how these young girls are not even speaking or interacting with boys and that teachers cannot literally tell the students apart.
The worst part of the article is the reporter's observation of two girls playing hide and seek. One girl is covered in the niqab and dark dress...running and playing...
What can you say about robbing the innocence and the joy of a child? What can you say?
Here's the full story from MEMRI.
You really should read the whole story because it details how these young girls are not even speaking or interacting with boys and that teachers cannot literally tell the students apart.
The worst part of the article is the reporter's observation of two girls playing hide and seek. One girl is covered in the niqab and dark dress...running and playing...
What can you say about robbing the innocence and the joy of a child? What can you say?
Here's the full story from MEMRI.
Egyptian Weekly Reveals Elementary School Girls in Rural Areas Wear Veils Covering Their Faces
An investigative report by journalist Asma Nassar, recently published in the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yousef, revealed that elementary-school girls in many Egyptian villages attend school wearing a niqab - a veil that covers the face - even though Islam does not require this.
The report also revealed that the girls' parents, influenced by extremist Salafi movements that are gaining strength in their areas, forbid their daughters to mix with boys and with girls who do not wear the niqab. Some are not allowed to participate in music and art classes, to go on school trips, or to play with their classmates.
"[I first encountered this phenomenon] on a street in the village of Al-Sheikh. I saw a young girl with a veil [over her face] and a school bag in her hand... When I asked her how old she was, she said that she was in the eighth grade. I asked: 'Aren't you too young to be wearing the niqab?' She laughed and replied: 'I have been wearing it since fourth grade… I couldn’t get her out of my mind. For a moment I imagined the life that lay ahead of this young girl, whose childhood had been eradicated and whose mind had petrified before it could open up and develop, giving her the ability to make her own choices.
"Ridha [said that he] noticed no difference between the girls who wear the niqab and those who do not, except that the former are more introverted, and [tend] not to play or run around a lot, out of concern that boisterous and playful behavior would be at odds with their style of dress.
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