My buddy Brad sent along a short article from the BBC that, after today, I felt the need to comment on. For once in my life--and it still kills me to say this--I am completely supportive of something coming out of al-Azhar. I was just walking along the Nile today and saw at least a half-dozen of these "munaqabat" strolling along with their husbands and kids. A couple of people here that I've spoken to say that, essentially, this is all coming from the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia. Muslims go on hajj to Mecca and see the women there in niqab and think or are told that this is somehow the Islamic thing to do. It just goes to show how influential the Saudi Wahhabi establishment has really become in the Muslim world, especially when traditionally Egypt has been one of the more "liberal" Arab states. Yeesh.
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