Pioneers of 7th Century dress

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6565145.stm

"The last four years in the lives of TV presenters Hala El Malki and Ghada El Tawil have been a continuous struggle brought about by their employers' refusal to implement two court verdicts.
It all started in 2002 when the two presenters decided to wear the hijab head covering worn by many Muslim women...

During the past four years more than 30 female anchors working in state TV are thought to have chosen the veil at the expense of their jobs. But if these two pioneers, Ms Malki and Ms Tawil, eventually return to the screen with their hijabs, the state broadcaster could find many others wanting to follow their example."

This is not an op-ed. Its a news story. Well, sort of. Egyptians have not historically worn Arabic dress. It is only very very recently that Saudi clothing styles have come to dominate. So there's no Egyptian heritage at stake. All over the world, the Arabisation of Muslims continues apace. The clothing, the murderous jihad philosphy, the cantankerous relationship with secular governments- all are becoming the 'uniform' of political Islam. I assume that in calling these two women pioneers Ranyah Sabry, the propagandist being paid by the BBC in Cairo, is touting them in the language used in the west for radical feminists. Pioneers risk their own safety and well-being to lead other people into new and exciting areas. Given that Arab women have been dressing like this for millenia, how can these Egyptians be described as pioneers exactly? Its a bit like a black woman in 2007 sitting at the back of a bus in Selma, insisting that other black women do it too, and calling herself a pioneer. It grieves me that Egypt, one of the cradles of civilisation, is sliding inexorably into the Islamist cesspit.