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Originally Posted by JHikka
Such a woeful misconstruing of history that it's not even worth the effort of addressing for the most part. Pining for the days of French colonial rule in Algeria and fearmongering with Islamphobia is just....awful? No other words.
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The 1970s was NOT French colonial rule in Algeria. Algeria became independent in 1962.
During French Algeria, Muslim women in Algeria were actually veiled (but with the traditional White veil of Algeria, not with the dark veil of Saudi Arabia).
This is how the Muslim women of Algiers looked like during the days of French Algeria, with the traditional Algerian veil (which has now almost completely disappeared):
That traditional veil of Algeria was called the haïk, it was always white (at least in Algiers), often embroidered, sometimes lined with shiny silk for those who had the money, and very different from the dark rigorist hijab of the Arabian Peninsula that is now prevalent all across the Muslim world.
After independence in 1962, Algeria embarked on a progressive, liberal course, and that's why by the 1970s a majority of women in the cities were unveiled and dressed like Europeans (which wasn't the case at all in the days of French Algeria). Same in Tunisia (the first president of Tunisia banned the Islamic veil outright), Lebanon, Syria, Iran, even Afghanistan.
That was Kabul in the 1970s:
Then by the 1980s a creeping form of conservatism imported from the Arabian Peninsula engulfed the entire Arab world.
Women in Algeria and elsewhere are actually fighting to drop the veil imposed by conservative clerics and politicians since the 1980s:
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