Hamas enforces a "code of modesty" that severely restricts the basic freedoms. A normative dress code that Hamas has attempted to enshrine in law, mandates that women must wear a hijab, while in schools, courthouses, or beaches. Women in Gaza have reported being approached by modesty police.
Tell it to ayatollahs and talibans, who submit this freedom to serious reprisals, including death. In the west we have rules, dress codes, with a purpose. It aims at protecting the freedom of those who reject ill advised and bigotry injunctions. "No constraint in religion" (says The Q'ran).
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