Anti-veil campaigns served to weaken Algerian national liberation movements

Evidence

In the case of Algerian women fighting for independence against the French, the hijab and the niqab were converted into instruments for liberation, through which armed revolutionaries safely passed military checkpoints under their anonymizing shields. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French unveiling campaigns functioned as gendered warfare to demoralize Algerian men. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 291; Attacking the veil aimed to defang Algeria’s Islamic-tinged liberation movement — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 292; Forced unveiling in colonial Algeria backfired by politicizing the veil — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 302 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-veil campaigns aimed to disarm Islam as liberation-movement glue #expands (0.97)
• Attacks on the veil aimed to dismantle Islam as nationalist resistance glue. #expands (0.96)
• Algerian women turned the veil into a weapon of anticolonial warfare #complicates (0.72) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846