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Chapter 4 demonstrates that more than half of respondents when viewing the veil as a fashion item feel guilty because they believe that it contradicts Islamic principles of modesty. The concept of modesty in Islam is explored in this chapter, as is fitna, in which women are always seemingly guilty for tempting men and are therefore responsible for hiding this power.
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© 2014 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Noreen Abdullah-Khan
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Botz-Bornstein, T., Abdullah-Khan, N. (2014). The Guilt/Shame Paradigm. In: The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137487421_4
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