The other day, I was walking around my local shopping centre and it was really busy, so by logic that means there will be a lot of diversity. Well when I was in one shop, I picked something up that I dropped and when I looked up there was a young muslim lady walking by me wearing a niqab covering the whole face except for her eyes, like this
I was quite surprised because I've never seen that in real life before and I think I came across visibly shocked because she walked away quite quickly and I noticed a few minutes later that she had removed the face covering.
I felt really bad because I feel like she removed that because she thought I was uncomfortable with it or something. I've always wrote on here about how I defend every woman's right to wear whatever she chooses (same with men), so it wasn't that at all. I feel sad because I think she thought she would tone down what she wanted to wear because of other peoples discomfort.. and nobody should ever have to censor themselves like that.
Do you guys think I have some kind of internal prejudice I didn't know about? I know I don't act on it, but perhaps it's there since my reaction to seeing a lady wearing a niqab for the first time?