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jilbab
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jilbab [dʒɪlˈbɑːb]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Islam) a long robe worn by Muslim women
[from Arabic]


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There's also the scene where many women in your own Somali neighborhood, including your mother, began dressing in burkas and jilbabs after encountering a preacher named Boqol Sawm.
If, as we're often told, many British Muslim women love their jilbabs, how can we be sure Saudi women do not also rejoice in their coverings, accepting, in the same dutiful spirit, total exclusion from civic life and physical chastisement by their devout partners?
The governors and head of Denbigh High School, Luton, and our schools here in Birmingham should consider saluting Shabina's dignified and eloquent stance by permitting an option for girls to wear jilbabs modelled in the colours of their school's uniform.
 
 
 
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