It’s been all downhill since the French left in 1962.
Algeria never attained to the secularism of Tunisia. It had no Bourguiba, but only a Boumedienne, and instead of his Destour Party, the FLN. But it also had forces opposed to the fanatical Muslims; the result was more than a decade of terrorism and war, and hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Now, in Algeria, the campaign to convince Muslim men to veil their women — including the girls who used to be exempt because of their age — and forbid the wearing of skirts, is finding success, is going great guns. A telling development.
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The Smithsonian has the personal photography collection of the last Ottoman Sultan, it is also on line. The photographs are all of the late 1800’s and are meant to show how Turkey was developing into a modern country. Lots of young girls going to school or learning a trade but not a veil and very few headscarves. The veil and burqa only came with the oil, had there been no oil you would not hear of Islam today.