<DIV>Thus, there has been considerable variation across the Muslim world <BR>-- with the most famous example probably being the Tuareg of the <BR>Sahara where it's the men who go around with only their eyes showing. <BR>In SE Asian Islam, women traditionally have worn only a loose head <BR>covering and that for formal occasions such as weddings, etc., and a <BR>full prayer dress for prayer times. That loose head covering shows <BR>plenty of hair, something deemed a no-no by latter-day Islamists, and <BR>historical photographs show that women in preparation for bath or <BR>around the home would wear a sarong tied to cover the breasts, <BR>showing plenty of shoulder, and a bit of leg.<BR><BR>kj khoo<BR>---</DIV>
<DIV>The population of Moscow is probably about 15% Muslim, and the only women I have seen in veils are Africans, though there is the very, very occasional head scarf. Most Muslim women in Russia wear jeans and t-shirts. They wear headscarves and long dresses going down to the ankles in little backwoods villages in the Caucasus, but that's about it.</DIV>
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<DIV>Wahabbi idiots did try to implement veiling women in Chechnya from 1996-1999, but I don't know how successful it was.</DIV><p>
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