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[quote=Anonymous]I posted way way earlier in the thread.  My family is from Egypt and I would like to add that the proliferation of the hijab has occurred in parallel with many ugly, ugly developments in the culture.  My mother used to be able to walk around in a miniskirt in peace, now women are routinely harassed and assaulted on the street no matter what they are wearing.  The country's increasing piousness has done little in the way of curbing crime, corruption, or deeply ingrained misogyny.  The progress that women had made up until the 70's basically halted.

Here are pictures of women in Egypt from the 1960s, similar to pictures I have of family at home:

[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/8b/db/d88bdbd94747ae78b987762dc4e03e50.jpg[/img]

[img]http://do-egypt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Girls-in-Egypt-in-the-1960s-1-300x300.jpg[/img]

And today.  Notice women who are not wearing hijab also dress very conservatively in public:

[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/12/22/1356173383296/Egyptian-women-vote-008.jpg[/img]

The hijab may have some theological significance, but in practice, it basically makes men feel that women are responsible for their sexual urges, that women who are uncovered are "asking" for it.  There continue to be religious debate about whether unrelated men and women can even work together.  There was even a famous incident where a scholar issued a fatwa saying that women would have to breastfeed their coworkers so that unrelated men and women working together would be proper.  I really have no faith in Islamic "scholars."  Personally, I have seen in my life nothing in modern Islam except a destructive, backwards force ruining people's lives.[/quote]

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