In the 1990s divorce remained taboo within American Muslim communities

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My mother held on to a marriage that had died before I grew into a teenager. Grasping whatever remained of it to shield me, and my two siblings, of the permanent stigma with which the children of Muslim divorcees are branded. During the 1990s, divorce in Muslim communities, even in America, was still taboo. So she held on, and during the bleakest times, met the violent hand of my father. She veiled a broken marriage within the community and in public. But it tore her and us apart from inside. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 792

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• ADDENDUM: Complements the veiling-as-survival theme in the reader’s published work on dress and modesty panics: here the mother ‘veils’ a marriage, not a body.