From the article said:Though the decision to ban the burkini contradicts with France’s secular principles, at least the majority of the French public who do reject the burkini claim that their reasoning is due to religious clothing being against secularism. However, in Egypt, a Middle Eastern country, where the majority of citizens are Muslim and the majority of women are veiled, several luxurious resorts have implemented their own ban and prevent women from entering pools wearing burkinis.
Society has constantly controlled what Egyptian women should and shouldn’t wear to various degrees, often encroaching on women’s comfort and freedom. Women are torn between what society wants, what society makes women think they want, and what they really want.
A young woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Daily News Egypt that she decided to wear the veil when she was 18; however, her family is considered aristocratic and they heavily criticised her decision. At first, they even prevented her from taking the step but she still wore the veil after what she calls “unjustified tension” with her family.
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While many Egyptians have criticized such actions despite the relative silence from Egyptian mainstream media, this still needs to be more publicized for two main reasons:
1) So that resorts engaging in this discrimination are exposed and forced to change their prejudiced and arbitrary restrictions, and
2) so that Western liberals under the impression that "Islamophobia" and anti-hijabi bigotry are exclusive to non-Muslim countries wake up and realize things aren't so black and white and that Arabs and Muslims are in many cases just as oppressive toward each other as "white people" supposedly are toward them.
It seems to me that tackling these internal issues is way more important than nitpicking other countries to paint Arabs and Muslims as constant victims there even in cases where they aren't.
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