During the 1920s, some began to address the veil, as I wrote about in my book on the women’s rights movement. All women’s demonstrations were met with violence. During the early days of the revolution, female members of recognized religious minorities such as Zoroastrians and ethnic Christian groups opposed the forced headcover as well. The state elite have been pontificating on gender for more than 40 years, and women’s rights activism has been just as constant. Every time they compared Muslim women with Western women, arguing that women have been oppressed in the West but not in Islam, they raised awareness.

Source: Libya Today October 10, 2022 23:32 UTC