The veil originated as civil-war protection yet permanently marked Muslim women

Evidence

In The Veil and the Male Elite, the Moroccan feminist Fatema Mernissi wrote, “The veil, which was intended to protect them [Muslim women] from violence in the street, would accompany them for centuries, whatever the security situation of the city. For them, peace would never return. Muslim women were to display their hijab everywhere, the vestige of a civil war that would never come to an end.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 810

Categorization

• CANDY: Mernissi’s image of the veil as a vestige of a civil war that never ended is a compact, quotable provocation against the ‘oppression symbol’ reading of hijab.