American protesters hurled the abused-Muslim-woman trope at families attending a women’s-shelter fundraiser

Evidence

In a video clip posted on YouTube, the viewer sees small groups of Muslims, men, women, and children, walking in what appears to be early evening toward a building. Police officers stand around the entrance and a man greets the families at the entrance. The camera moves from them to a group off to one side holding American flags and signs in what is clearly a protest of some kind. A man repeatedly shouts through a megaphone: “Muhammad was a pervert, Muhammad was a fraud.” Amid screams including “Go home, no shari’a. Do you beat up your wife, too? Are you a molester?” one woman shouts: “Why don’t you go beat up your wife like you do every night!” A few seconds later, another one adds: “She probably needs a good beating!” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 508

Categorization

• SHARE: A concrete, vivid instance worth sending to someone tracking contemporary anti-Muslim protest rhetoric in the US.
• SEED: The irony — protesters invoking the abused-wife trope at a charity event to fund women’s shelters — is a sharp essay/anecdote opening about the function of the trope.