Meet the woman behind the niqab: Fathima Farook
An entrepreneur, teacher, mom and volunteer, Fathima Farook has had to put up with shameful taunts for nothing more than her choice of garb.
by Catherine Porter
Toronto Star
February 5, 2013
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/39259/meet-the-woman-behind-the-niqab-fathima-farook
Excerpt:
Fathima Farook has a pleasant round face and warm dark eyes.
If you buy her pakoora or aloo masala at the Evergreen Brick Works Farmers Market, though, you'll see her eyes but not her face.
Farook wears a niqab — a black cloth with slits for her eyes to peek through.
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