Long suspected that hijab/niqab was a long-term strategy by MB to force no-win internal fights in the West. https://religional.org/2016/04/25/french-connection-part-ii-radicalization-laicite-and-the-islamic-veil/ …
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(Hijab is an ancient Muslim tradition that goes back a whole 50 years, to a specific ultraconservative and repressive reactionary movement.)
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https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism … (scheduled for publicity in about two weeks, but relevant…)
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You might be interested in this history of Traditionalism. It was utterly fascinating to me. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0195152972.001.0001/acprof-9780195152975 …
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Thanks! I mentioned it here: https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism#footnote6_icioiqj … but haven’t actually read it yet. Does look fascinating!
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Sedgewick has a blog that is worth looking at it. I can’t remember where now, but you can find with Google pretty easily
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