Women and clothing
This is the first time I see in a newspaper article the comparison of the corporatization of western and middle eastern women’s bodies. The article by Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists also explains the ideologies of the religious fanatics in Somalia, Egypt, the Sudan and Saudi Arabia which manifest in the control women’s bodies - religious extremism is essentially political despotism by another name. Also the fanatics who advocate these religious views, will ask women to wear gloves, niqab or in the case of Somalia ban the wearing of bras as a form of false advertising are mute when it comes to despotism, corruption, fraudulence or torture. Women are easy targets of control and how they are controlled is an indicator of a country’s political system.
