Ibn.AL.Muqafaa
22nd February 2017, 14:19
Most of the Arab world was fairly progressive from the 50s to 80s. Many Arabs used to work and study in Europe & North America, coming back to their home country with liberal and humanist ideas about the world.
But after Saudi Arabia started getting rich through oil,& Iran's Islamic Revolution. We started working and studying in these countries, coming back with regressive Salafist and Khomeinist views.
Before the Lebanese Civil War, Islamists did not exist.
The left was very powerful & influencial
The Islamists started gaining popularity slowly, after the 9/11 incident. But significantly gained more after the Arab spring, they hijacked the secularist uprisings.
After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian Armed Forces declared martial law, forcing young women with or without the hijab to undergo virginity tests, and if they weren't virgins they were tortured by being stepped on. them. The rate of sexual harassment has significantly skyrocketed, including perpetuation by police officers and military personnel. Sometimes a woman is raped and encircled by men.
Arab women back then used to wear skimpy clothes, bikinis and no one used to care about them, sexual harassment was taken much more seriously. The hijab was only popular with elderly women.
Many girls today have been victims of honor killing because of being raped.
But after Saudi Arabia started getting rich through oil,& Iran's Islamic Revolution. We started working and studying in these countries, coming back with regressive Salafist and Khomeinist views.
Before the Lebanese Civil War, Islamists did not exist.
The left was very powerful & influencial
The Islamists started gaining popularity slowly, after the 9/11 incident. But significantly gained more after the Arab spring, they hijacked the secularist uprisings.
After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian Armed Forces declared martial law, forcing young women with or without the hijab to undergo virginity tests, and if they weren't virgins they were tortured by being stepped on. them. The rate of sexual harassment has significantly skyrocketed, including perpetuation by police officers and military personnel. Sometimes a woman is raped and encircled by men.
Arab women back then used to wear skimpy clothes, bikinis and no one used to care about them, sexual harassment was taken much more seriously. The hijab was only popular with elderly women.
Many girls today have been victims of honor killing because of being raped.