Anti-Islam feminism weaponizes women’s dress as a national security concern

Evidence

Chesler is a sophisticated and knowledgeable Islamophobe. … Huda would weep if she saw how women have been deeply veiled in Egypt and how Islamist forces have taken over—dare I say, colonized?—the Egyptian state. She would be amazed at all the Muslim girls and women living in the west who are veiling too, wearing the suffocating, hot, and heavy totalitarian and fascist flag of Islamism on their heads, faces, and bodies as they walk behind men who are perfectly comfortable in light, modern clothing. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 535

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior article ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — here the moral panic over Muslim veiling inverts that historical pattern, with modernity-conservatives accusing the veiled of totalitarianism.
• QUESTION: The chapter does not yet name the mechanism: is Chesler’s move projection (her own colonial gaze recast as Islamist colonization) or displacement of feminist anxiety?