Norway: Muslim girls beaten for not wearing the hijab

Europe News
March 3, 2009

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1559/norway-muslim-girls-beaten-for-not-wearing

Excerpt:

Muslim girls who don't wear the hijab all the time are beaten, says Gerd Fleischer, of Self-Help for Immigrants and Refugees (Seif).

"In my office, women cried brave tears over having to go with a hijab. Countless young women despairingly told me that they don't have the hijab on all the time, they'll get a beating."

"These don't dare appear in the public debate," Fleischer told Vårt Land.

She's upset that young Muslim women say they are free to choose if they want to go with a hijab.

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