she chose to wear niqab as a way to mark her new beginning. she feels completely comfortable in her new veil. >> it become something you don't even know you are wearing anymore. it is like a second skin. >> there are discovered islam when she did -- she accompanied a friend to a mosque. she has become used to the hostel looks she gets. >> it always makes people anxious. being invaded here in england. we are multicultural. it is diverse. we have to do to know one another and live together in peace and harmony. that is what islam is. >> sarah lives in a modest house in birmingham. she is not yet wearing a face veil, but she might one day. >> i look and i think, oh, i wish i was strong enough to wear it now. as women, i know how much i love my husband. to go home for him and just let him see me. obviously people don't understand. we can dress ourselves up and make ourselves beautiful. i don't like when i walked down the road that people are jeering at me and i'll in the over. >> her mother and her friends agree. they also know that some women are

older sister and the mother of the family over the the older sisters want to wear the niqab. it's believed that she'd been radicalized by outside outside forces in the area where they live just outside of norway now this comes just a week after it turned out that one of the gunmen in the nairobi terror attack on the shopping mall there in kenya had also held a norwegian passport so norwegian authorities looking into this to try and track down these two women who are believed to be in turkey trying to cross the border into syria down there they have they say they have evidence that they've been spotted in that area and peter some might be quick to judge on this calling perhaps we're seeing some sort of trend here what would you say on that. well security officers working with the norwegian security services are saying this we are seeing a growing trend in organized groups trying to to recruit and radicalize muslims muslim people in the in the west in europe and across europe we have seen cases where by. fight is anti assad fighters have turned up with with passports from acros

older sister and the mother of the family over the older sisters want to wear the niqab so norwegian authorities looking into this to try and track down these two women who are believed to be in turkey trying to cross the border into syria they say they have evidence that they've been spotted in the area security officers working with the norwegian security services are saying that we are seeing a growing trend in organized groups trying to to recruit and radicalize muslims muslim people in the in the west in europe across europe we have seen cases where by anti assad fighters have turned up with with passports from across the european union norway itself believes that around forty of its citizens are currently fighting in the area one of the largest groups from europe that's made their way to fight against assad troops have been from right here in germany it's believed that in the north of syria there's a camp that's been labeled the german camp by newsmagazine around two hundred german citizens most of them from the north rhine-westphalia area believed to be there the numbers well

. >> reporter: they choose to wear the niqab. >> a woman is seen as no more than a sex object in societyty depends how much cleavage or leg she shows. islamic teaching teaches us us to guard honor, guard chastity. protect ourselves. >> reporter: when you see somebody completely uncovered like me, what do you think? >> oppressed. because you are not subservient to the one who created you. you are slave to your own desires. >> if you were not famous diane sawyer and had not achieved what you achieved in your life would you be happy being a mother? >> reporter: you think it is possible to have both. >> >> in the western side, the women, all they're trying to do is achieve what men are achieving. they're trying to have babies, and then go to work, and still be a size zero. this it's just so -- it's so difficult being a woman in the western world. i'm so glad i'm not in the western world. so difficult being a woman in the western world. >> reporter: tonight, u.s. director of an american muslim organization says, there is a battle for the soul of islam, good muzz licks like a girl like malala