There have been Muslim societies in which governments compelled women to cover themselves, and others in which governments compelled them to uncover. There have been states that excluded women from education and public life in the name of religion, and states that excluded them from universities and employment because they insisted on wearing religious dress.

History is particularly troublesome for the simple oppression narrative.

Take Iran. The Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab is well known and rightly criticised as coercive. Less often remembered is the earlier history of state-enforced unveiling under Reza Shah, whose 1936 Kashf-e hijab policy banned traditional veiling and subjected women who wished to remain covered to state coercion.

Yes, social and political regulation of women's bodies is bad. If you would be shamed for abandoning your religion and slutting it up that is bad, if you would like to cover yourself in the absense of social pressure to do so that is fine.