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According to your graph there aren't many places that force the hijab through law. It seems to be Saudi Arabia, Iran, Aceh in Indonesia and some region in Malaysia. Everywhere else it seems to be quite common to prevalent. In the prevalent areas it can be hard to tell how that social more is enforced.
Every place has social mores that are enforced informally by society and not the state but how this manifests is important. Do women face violence? Or just strong to moderate disapproval? We know that both are the case in various contexts but your graph doesn't really distinguish between those.
I've said before I prefer a society where women are encouraged to wear the burqa through moderate social pressure than forced to wear the hijab because of a threat of mob and/or state violence. Which is to say, I don't care as much what they wear as much as I do why they wear it.
Which, to be clear since I know some cunt will jump on me for this, I'm saying I approve of the burqa because I don't. The effect it has is like that of sunglasses, which prevents eye contact and reduces empathy, but likely far, far stronger and thus toxic for social interactions while also lacking the utility of sunglasses. But I still stand by the point I made.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obfuscate
"Definition of obfuscate
obfuscated
;
obfuscating
- transitive verb
- 1a : to throw into shadow : darkenb : to make obscure <obfuscate the issue> <officials who … continue to obscure and obfuscate what happened — Mary Carroll>
- 2: confuse <obfuscate the reader>
- intransitive verb
- : to be evasive, unclear, or confusing <The suspect oftenobfuscated during the interrogation.>
play\ˌäb-(ˌ)fə-ˈskā-shən\ noun
obfuscatory
play\äb-ˈfə-skə-ˌtȯr-ē, əb-\ adjective
"Did You Know?
To obfuscate something means to make it so that it isn't clear or transparent, much like dirty water makes it hard to see to the bottom of a pond. The verb shares its ob- root (meaning "over, completely") with obscure, another word that can refer to the act of concealing something or making it more difficult to see or understand. The rest of obfuscate comes from Latin fuscus, which means "dark brown" and is distantly related to our word dusk."
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"al-Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (as) (The Sixth Imam of Ahlul-Bayt [family of the house of Muhammad]) said:
"al-Taqiyya is my religion, and the religion of my ancestors.”He (as)also said: "He who doesn’t practice al-Taqiyya, doesn't practice his religion."
https://www.al-islam.org/shiite-encyclopedia-ahlul-bayt-dilp-team/al-taqiyya-dissimulation-part-3