Anti-sharia legislation covertly targets Muslim women through paranoid fantasy.

Evidence

Genuine issues of domestic violence (which exists in every community) have been seized by opportunistic Islamophobes as another weapon for bashing Islam. Real discrimination against Muslim women exists in America, including discrimination in the workplace, different public treatment, and abuse of veiled women. Hammer cites examples of Islamophobia directed against Muslim women that underline the importance of racism and fear of minorities as motives. Hysterical attempts to create anti-sharia legislation implicitly target Muslim women, by creating paranoid fantasies of Muslim takeovers of the Constitution and the imposition of veils and burqas on American women. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 48

Categorization

• QUESTION: The paragraph trails off mid-clause; the underlying mechanism — how anti-sharia laws function as veiled attacks on Muslim women — is left dangling. Worth chasing how Hammer argues this.
• XREF: connects to: Anti-sharia legislation frames Islam as a foreign political conspiracy warranting criminalization