# Removing the Niqab in Saudi Arabia: A Call for Personal Freedom

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2105996505911787691
- Source account: [@a_a1655](https://x.com/a_a1655)
- Source language: Arabic
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 2026-10-02
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom) I received messages and saw comments and videos about the hashtag about taking off the niqab. Honestly, I'm shocked because here in Saudi Arabia, there's nothing, the state doesn't force anyone, except the most important thing is to dress modestly, and the rest is up to you.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=20) So I can't imagine why there are still families forcing their daughter, who doesn't want to wear a niqab, to cover her face.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=29) I honestly never imagined it. I thought that women who wear niqab do so by choice and of their own free will.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=34) It's a personal freedom. But those who don't want to wear a niqab, forcing them to wear it is cruel, truly cruel.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=44) She can't breathe, she can't eat at a restaurant outside, she can't let the sun touch her face, she can't have an identity, so people remember her, so people trust her, people know her features, her nose. Where is she from? Saudi Arabia?

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=63) There are so, so many things I could say, things...

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=68) Saudi women, I swear, are making us proud just give them a chance.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=73) I mean, I can't imagine that families, especially families, if they remember their parents, or even themselves, I mean, not long ago...

[1:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=81) There was face covering. This is new to us.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=85) So whatever your thoughts are, whether you're a father or a mother, about the issue. It is also a matter of personal freedom.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=93) I hope this issue passes peacefully and with understanding, and that no girl has to choose between her family and the niqab.

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=104) Win your daughters over.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=107) It isn't that hard. Make it easy, and it will be easy, make it easy, and it will be easy. I'm with you.

[1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6sGQ2WckuCRO/en/removing-the-niqab-in-saudi-arabia-a-call-for-personal-freedom?t=115) God willing, God willing, it goes… very smoothly, Abu Salem.