No nos taparán

The path of North African women or women of North African origin towards equality is not without setbacks. Thus, after decades of struggle to leave behind patriarchal cultural obstacles, the arrival of a new fundamentalist Islam, promoted from the Gulf countries, is in the process of nullifying the advances of the feminist movement. The massive diffusion of the veil is the clearest symbol of this reactionary process: a uniformed garment, standardized from Malaysia to Morocco, aims to become a symbol of a "cultural identity", while carrying a clear religious, ideological and sexist message. Faced with this pressure, they are alone. The right considers them simply "Moorish" and, as such, part of the problem of Islam, which it understands as a global threat. A good part of the left, after decades of struggle for secularism, is dedicated to courting that same rigorous Islam for the sake of a misunderstood "diversity", and actively promotes the veil and, with it, a whole set of attitudes of the fundamentalist patriarchy. This book reveals how the group of North African immigrants in Spain has abandoned their culture to throw themselves into the arms of a neo-Islam more sexist than ever. And it denounces how companies and administrations collaborate with this, promoting the veil and stifling the struggle of women for their rights.