Re: Why Purdah is considered as a sign of backwardness?
intrestingly the niqaab began first in baghdad during the silk road. Men of many different countries would stare at the local women (which at that time would wear revealing clothes with their chest being visable. So the men became jelous , so the veil was enforced to prevent men staring at the local women and causing trouble with the local arab men. This is what i have hear so the veil orginally wasn’t enforced for religious reasons to begin with lol.