What is niqab?

Niqab is a combination of headgear and scarf or scarf for one piece that covers everything except the eyes. Usually he flows down to half back to cover the female hair, and can flow down to the middle of the chairman. This head cover can be worn with a burk or other clothing as part of a modest dress for Muslim women. They are most often worn in the Arab Gulf countries, in some parts of Southeast Asia, North African Islamic countries and India. Hijab is a clothing that is worn according to the instructions in Qu'ran, which offers women to cover their beauty. The cover can be mandatory in some countries and other women wear it from the selection. Efforts in some countries, such as Turkey, to ban niqab, have encountered protests. In fact, Turkey has a tendency to not enforce this law, because some women feel protected by carrying it.

There are two types of niqab. In some styles, both showed and the eyes show and the scarf is attached seams or elastic. The second type is more closely associated with the Burqa style. ShowOnly eyes and even eyebrows can be covered.

In some Muslim women, laws promoting wearing this head are repressive. Others consider this to be the usual dress and as a freedom of anonymity that a woman gives when a woman performs errands. Furthermore, wearing Niqab can be for some great religious satisfaction.

There were some interesting results when immigrants wear Niqab in traditionally Western dressed land. Some Muslim women in the US feel that their coverage makes them more visible and are more likely to encounter discrimination. In the Netherlands, it is forbidden to meet a considerable protest.

In 2006, one member of the British Parliament Jack Straw asked for women wearing covering their heads at private meetings. This triggered the avalanche of the debate, but remains voluntary and is not banned. There was no woman in Florida that insisted that she was wearing niqab for the driverID card. Officials offered a woman a private place where she took a picture, and the guarantee that only an employee would take a picture as a concession in the privacy and religious feelings of a woman.

It would be quite difficult to look at a picture of a driving license and identify someone from a picture wearing NIQAB. It tends to make a woman quite anonymous, especially in countries where she is common. This can really be useful when negotiations are allowed in local markets in the Middle East and other Islamic countries. Covering facial expressions, many claims, allowing women to make better negotiations about the food and goods purchased.