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I wear a niqab! AMA

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JamTea · 12/08/2018 13:34

Hi everyone,

I am a regular MNer and NC'd for this :). As background, I have a successful career in tech, I am a Muslim and I wear niqab too. Since Boris's comments, I've seen quite a bit written on MN about burqa and niqab, and thought it may be useful to answer any questions people have in relation to niqab. I also know a large number of Muslim women and have lived in various Muslim communities, so can probably speak from my experience and relay other people's experiences too.

Just as a note: I don't know any women in the UK that wear burqa and I have never seen anyone wear a burqa in real life. The difference between niqab and burqa is illustrated here: cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/scarf-651554.jpg

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HebeMumsnet · 13/08/2018 10:42

Morning, everyone. We just wanted to pop on and see if we can get this thread back on track as it seems to have gone a bit off target overnight.

We'd especially like to draw a line under all the troll hunting now and get back to the OP's AMA. Obviously we can never know with absolute certainty that anyone here is who they say they are. But, for what it's worth, the OP has been on the site a fair while and we've no reason to doubt her. Candy joined yesterday and has since deregged so we aren't really able to verify anything more about her. We're going to leave Candy's posts up as obviously much of the thread now won't make sense without them but we just wanted to let you all know not to expect her back.

In the meantime, it is the OP's AMA after all, so could we get back to asking her (almost) anything? It would be really nice to get such an interesting thread back on track.

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HebeMumsnet · 13/08/2018 22:52

Evening all. Just a reminder that we think it would be best to return to the OP's AMA and draw a line under everything else now. It seems a bit unfair to derail an AMA, though of course we'd be happy to host others on the subject. Thank you!

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HebeMumsnet · 14/08/2018 15:18

Afternoon, everyone.

Sorry to butt in again but we feel it's time now to get back to the original point of the thread.

We absolutely encourage debate on Mumsnet but with AMAs we think they are more personal and the expectation is slightly different, and while there are bound to be offshoots and tangents from any discussion, another poster with an opposing view also essentially 'answering anything' is bound to end in a thread that's more of an AIBU than an AMA, and that has certainly derailed this thread a little.

We'd very much like to hear more about the other side of wearing niqab - there's clearly lots to say and obviously lots of interest from you all on hearing about it - but we'd suggest that is perhaps best started as a separate AMA or just a separate thread elsewhere.

It's certainly an emotive subject and we have closed accounts on this thread already because we had concerns that some people were not posting with the best of intentions; and this issue, coupled with the slight derailment, has drawn the thread away from where it started so we wanted to step in now and get things back on track.

If anyone else has any questions for the OP about her views and experiences, please do ask her, but we think any other sort of discussion would be better in a fresh thread of its own. Thanks for your understanding.

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AnyaMumsnet · 15/08/2018 16:36

Hi there everone,

We'd really like to draw a line under discussion of Candy and troll hunting of OP now. Whilst we can't go into detail - TSSDNCOP after all - we're confident Candy wasn't posting with the best of intentions.

When it hasn't been being derailed, this thread has been very interesting, and consequently very popular, so could we now please stick to the AMA?

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