The Mysterious Abaya-clad Women in the Mall
Sony and I find the women behind these abayas to be both mysterious and frustrating. Mysterious because I keep wondering how they sneeze and how they drink coffee with that thing on…and how do their sunglasses not fall off their noses? At the buffet this morning a woman wearing an abaya was loading up her tray, and again, I kept asking myself, ‘how are you gonna eat that and still remain the chaste mysterious stranger you want to be?’
In the shopping mall beneath the Petronas Twin Towers, I watched a gaggle of abaya-clad women with a few men in kaffias, then the women caught my eye, and and pointed at me menacingly. I quickly ducked into an outdoor store, fearing the wrath of her insulted husband who might want to chase down this infidel for shooting photos of his wife.
Not all of the city’s Muslims choose to wear these black abayas, or even the headscarf. As our guide Sara told us, it’s a modern place and you can wear what you want, Christian, Jew Buddhist or Muslim.
July 18, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
And so…how did the cloaked woman eat her piled high plate of buffet food? Just like you, I want to know. And just like you, I probably would have been caught starting, too!
January 27, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
uhmm just like you miss kelly and silly fat man who wrote the article,we do eat through our mouth we don’t have any extra bits hidden anywhere and just like you we have to chew and just like you we also drink well halal drinks that is. And mister yes our “offended” husband would chase you infidel moron because yes we didn’t give you any authorisation for you to photographe us and put our pictures on your silly websites writing your silly comments,and by the way why go to the middle east if you find all that strange quite frankly just stick with barbados or australia:)