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In a 1958 speech, Egyptian President Nasser describes to an audience the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood to force women to wear a hijab. Both he and the audience laugh at the thought of forcing millions of women to cover up. Today, most Egyptian women wear the hijab.
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The Last Caliph of Islam, Abdülmecid II, pictured during his exile from the Republic of Turkey on the shores of a beach in Nice, France in the late 1930s with members of the House of Osman and various French painters. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything
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A 1972 cover of Pakistan’s leading monthly magazine, The Herald. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything
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Over the last decade, Turkey has invested substantial amounts in the growth of both governmental and nongovernmental organizations to further its Islamist agenda throughout Europe: foreignpolicy.com/2019/05/07…
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Turkish actress Gülşen Bubikoğlu, 1970s. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything
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Aden (Yemen), late 1970s. Aden was home to the first Arab Women’s Movement in the Arabian Peninsula. The first female protest against domestic violence took place in Aden in 1951. #BeforeShariaSpoiledEverything
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