Journalists asked Tawakkol Karman [Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 2011] with surprise whether she does not see her mode of dressing as something which contradicts her education and intellectual level as the hijab is viewed as oppression of women and backwardness.
Tawakkol’s answer to them was: “The human being in early times was almost naked with the development of his thought over time he began to wear clothes. What I am today and what I wear is the height of intellect and sophistication reached by man through the ages, not backwardness. Unclothedness is a sign of backwardness and human thinking going back to early times.”