with throughout history. The problem with religion and gender is that

religious doctrine usually filters through to us via our educators at

early ages and does little to elaborate on over-simplified and out

dated guidelines for how boys and girls need to be. In the Middle

East, women practicing the Muslim faith feel that their identity and

facial features need to be masked, and appear shrouded whenever in

public. This act of a penitence is due to that religion’s demand for

humility before Allah, and it is no doubt that women who are born in to

that culture are less to adhere to the more liberal western ideals of

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