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Two Malaysian women, writing about the purdah in their own words

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Two Malaysian women, writing about the purdah in their own words

Two Malay-language blog accounts, published by their own authors: a mother who wore the veil in the 1980s, was turned away from a teaching placement over it, and now wears it sometimes; and a 21-year-old whose first niqab brought tears, then a rumour that she had turned Shia.

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