text: (c)"["Yet research shows most women who wear the niqab in Canada arrive at the choice themselves – as an expression of their Muslim identity, as a spiritual awakening, or as a personal challenge. They often do so despite the disapproval of loved ones and larger Muslim community "The women do it entirely for their own reasons..." said Lynda Clarke, a specialist of religion and Islam at Montreal's Concordia University and author of a 2013 study on women who wear the niqab in Canada..]"(c)
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  Trying to 'normalize' walking 'backward', instead of 'forward' in 21st Western Society seems to be more 'psychologically abnormal' than the realistic healthy perspective of a 21st century woman. Perhaps a woman of these proclivities:
  
  a) see a psychologist to deal with the need to hide one's face, or
  
  b) become a hermit & not venture outside into the Human Public Space at all..
  
  . . other citizens have the right not to be labelled by the negative conscious act of the eyes-only, non-inclusive insult.