Anti-veil campaigns aimed to disarm Islam as liberation-movement glue

Evidence

Additionally, the attack on the veil and the attack on Islam were means by which to defang the national liberation movement that had used Islam as an ideological glue to bring people together to stand up to French imperialism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 292

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• SEED: Essay angle: how imperialists weaponize the very religiosity they claim to save women from — attacking the faith functions to dismantle the solidarity it anchors, a pattern repeatable across colonial and neocolonial contexts.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this analysis generalize to contemporary Islamophobia where attacking mosques/headscarves coincides with targeting religiously-anchored anti-imperial movements (e.g., resistance to drone strikes in tribal regions where Islam organizes resistance)?

Related

• Attacking the veil aimed to defang Algeria’s Islamic-tinged liberation movement (similarity 0.92)
• Rising Islamophobia causes some Muslim women to adopt the veil as political resistance (similarity 0.82)
• Forced unveiling campaigns backfire by driving women to adopt the veil (similarity 0.80)
• Veil bans revived imperialist narratives about Muslim women needing saving (similarity 0.80)
• The veil functions as feminist resistance and liberation, not only oppression (similarity 0.80)
• Comparisons of Muslim-region misogyny can silence domestic feminist debate. (similarity 0.80)
• Gendered Islamophobia casts Muslim women as victims needing state rescue (similarity 0.79)
• The veil’s meaning reversed from resistance symbol to revolutionary instrument (similarity 0.79)
• France’s 1958 forced unveiling drove Algerian women to adopt the veil as protest (similarity 0.79)
• French unveiling campaigns functioned as gendered warfare to demoralize Algerian men. (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim women veil for varied personal-political reasons silenced by rescue discourse (similarity 0.78)