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Afghan women continue to wear symbolic burqa by admin in Miscellaneous visit site

The burqa is "in." Actually the all-enveloping cloak has never really been "out" in the five years since the fall of the ultra-Islamic Taliban regime that forced all women to wear it. But in today's conflict-ridden Afghanistan, the garment seen by many as a symbol of oppression is finding new followers among Western women worried about anti-foreigner sentiment, and Western men looking for ironic gifts for lovers back home.