Japan's hijab critics, and the veils women in their own society once wore

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Japan's hijab critics, and the veils women in their own society once wore

A Threads post juxtaposing Muslim hijab critics with Japan's own history of women's face and head coverings went viral. It drew 273,000 views, thousands of replies, and a wave of Japanese commenters insisting their ancestors' coverings were "just for the cold" and meant nothing. Japan's own record says otherwise.

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Source: Threads, Old Photos of Japan, Kyoto Costume Museum (Iz2.or.jp), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikipedia, Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah.

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