Quebec women who’ve worn niqabs discuss province’s controversial neutrality bill
MONTREAL — Warda Naili says the first time she donned a niqab six years ago, it became a part of her.
The Quebec woman, a convert to Islam, said she decided to cover her face out of a desire to practice her faith more authentically and to protect her modesty.
And in an image driven society, she found it liberating that people would now have to connect with her based on who she was, not what she looked like.
“My interpretation — and it’s very personal — is that my niqab is my portable curtain,” Naili, 34, said in an interview near her home in Montreal.