the lower classes started going islamic dress at least 20 years ago
the middle and upper class Egyptians were contemptuous of it and saw it as a political statement by the poor and the rebellious to look pious and rebuke “the system” from which the poor felt disenfranchised
kinda like hoodies!
In Turkey, Ataturk knew what he was doing when he banned the veil
who’da thunk that 20 years later all the women in Egypt would be going under the veil for their own and their family’s protection from zealots and islamic Bolsheviks in their own society
In all societies, if the underclass is allowed to grow, it will eventually decide to seize power and try to enslave the middle class. Underclasses need continual pruning.