The Egyptian government has announced a ban on the wearing of the face-covering niqab in schools from the beginning of the next term on 30 September.
Education Minister Reda Hegazy made the announcement on Monday, adding that students would still have the right to choose whether to wear a headscarf, but insisted it must not cover their faces.
He also said that the child’s guardian should be aware of their choice, and that it must have been made without any outside pressure.
Yep, but worse of all it seems that some people would respond to any criticism of the ban as one being okay with oppressing women. Bans are shit, usually poorly motivated, and often motivated by politics and xenophobia. No one likes the slow way of social change, and people sometimes ignore the efforts already done by women in these communities (in other words, they are already liberating themselves with their own hands)