1958 video: Egyptian leader discusses Muslim Brotherhood's proposed hijab laws

Retro is the in thing now. They're like Muslim Hipsters.

The Egyptian government's biggest problem was the signing of the Camp David Accords. Because the Muslim Brotherhood fueled a type of Egyptian nationalism with Islamic fundamentalism, it was easier for them to gain supporters who weren't lunatics but despised what they saw as Sadat caving to Israel and the United States.

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I was somewhat aware of middle eastern politics at this time. The U.A.R. (United Arab Republic) which was Egypt, Syria, and Jordan was headed by Nasser. They were coming off a somewhat humiliating debacle from the Suez Crisis (although Britain and France faired no better) and were HEAVILY supported by the Soviet Union (read: Russia). Their secular attitude was a reflection of a half century's worth of western influence and more importantly 15 years of Russian communist doctrine and military and technical assistance. By the time Sadat got power in Egypt in the 1970's, most of the Egyptian populace and the rest of the Middle East were so pervasively anti-Zionist that when Sadat was assassinated moslems celebrated from Cairo to Detroit. It only strengthened the hand of the Moslem Brotherhood in the region and resulted in Israeli intransigence (a logical self-defense response) that persists to this day.