Well...I've been observing niqab for 3 months now!
It's prohibited by law to cover your face on IDs, driver license etc. Those are the exceptions, other than that in Germany one isn't allowed to wear it while attending public insitutions such as school or courtrooms or to take part in a protest with it.
I'm constantly insulted and degraded not only by non-Muslims, it's often Muslims who tell me I'm going to extreme who point fingers at me or make stupid remarks...
My fellow Muslim classmates are telling me that I draw far more attention to myself by observing it, but I have a huge trouble with the Pakistani guys here, they keep starring at me the whole time and it annoys me...Niqab doesn't even stop them from it, but at least then I can say about myself I've done the best to cover myself properly...
Today I was at the private tutoring institute and two little boys made fun of me, one called me a "zombie" I don't know why but I simply lost my patience and snapped back at him. I ended up insulting a little kid, later he and his friend(who was a Moroccon Muslim boy) came and apologised and even gave me some of their chocolate...I felt so bad...it's not his fault that he doesn't understand it, of course he is curious about it and it really made me think whether I should continue with it. On top of that my family is not even Muslim, my dad is not aware of the niqab he already gets mad at me for abaya and headscarf. Momentarily I really don't know if it's the right thing to do, as I rarely see any other Niqabi running around. I feel so helpless, I really want to be a strong Muslimah, at the same time I don't want to EVER scream at a little child again for not understanding something so alien to him.
