Anti-terror measures aimed at Muslim men also hit Muslim women through family ties

Evidence

In addition to these direct experiences of discrimination, hate speech, and hate crimes, Muslim women have also been affected by legal and political measures that, on the surface, seem to target Muslim men: the Patriot Act, administrative detention measures, and surveillance of “terrorist suspects” among others. Women rarely appear directly affected in this context (which might be a reporting blind spot in some instances); however, it is not difficult to argue that measures targeting Muslim men in American Muslim communities almost always also affect the women of these communities. Women are wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Muslim men taken away and deported for minor immigration infractions, fired for being Muslim, put under surveillance for attending a mosque, forced to endure special registration and random searches at airports, and subject to material support for terrorism trials. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 527

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author flags a possible ‘reporting blind spot’ on women’s direct experiences — worth chasing whether data exists on direct surveillance of women.