The French Wikipedia says, for what it's worth, "D’après les dernières estimations fournies par le gouvernement tunisien à l’Organisation internationale de la francophonie, le nombre de personnes ayant une certaine maîtrise du français est chiffré à 6,36 millions de personnes, soit 63,6 % de la population."
Admittedly the Tunisian government might well exaggerate the number of French speakers when reporting to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, but it appears that potentially subversive French books would reach a larger part of the Tunisian population than just the upper middle class. The education system moved slowly from French to Arabic after independence and science classes were still taught in French up until the 1990s, so knowledge of French was not limited to a narrow elite.
The Qur’an just says a woman should cover her charms (zinah), and I suspect women in ancient pagan Arabia, where it is very hot, went about as those in some parts of subsaharan Africa still do, with very little clothing on, and the Qur’an just wanted them to cover up a bit.
Some women in sub-Saharan Africa don't wear anything above the waist. Is that what you mean by "very little clothing"?
Your first link says there were 560,000 Jews in Germany "before the Third Reich", so saying that the present population of 250,000 is larger than the 1939 figure gives a misleading impression about how large the Jewish community is now compared to before the Second World War. Clearly many Jews left between Hitler taking power and the outbreak of war.
The French Wikipedia says, for what it's worth, "D’après les dernières estimations fournies par le gouvernement tunisien à l’Organisation internationale de la francophonie, le nombre de personnes ayant une certaine maîtrise du français est chiffré à 6,36 millions de personnes, soit 63,6 % de la population."
Admittedly the Tunisian government might well exaggerate the number of French speakers when reporting to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, but it appears that potentially subversive French books would reach a larger part of the Tunisian population than just the upper middle class. The education system moved slowly from French to Arabic after independence and science classes were still taught in French up until the 1990s, so knowledge of French was not limited to a narrow elite.
Your first link says there were 560,000 Jews in Germany "before the Third Reich", so saying that the present population of 250,000 is larger than the 1939 figure gives a misleading impression about how large the Jewish community is now compared to before the Second World War. Clearly many Jews left between Hitler taking power and the outbreak of war.
As the Guardian article says, "South Africa eventually built its own nuclear bombs, albeit possibly with Israeli assistance."