Why Is It Difficult To Wear A Niqab?

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I feel like this 20 year old girl has a point where she is trying to say that she is being exposed from her community because of what she wears and also being muslim which people can already identify her as a muslim woman because she wears a niqab. It also shows in the video that she is trying to say that she is a feminist which means she has equal rights as everybody else. This girl is also given cultural ignorance from the community just because of her wearing a niqab she is considered a threat to many people or should I say not comfortable being beside

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