Burqa bans rest on intertwined stereotypes of Muslim women and men

Evidence

The law, driven by the belief that Muslim women were being “imprisoned” behind a “screen” by their husbands or fathers, simultaneously perpetuated two entwined gender stereotypes: that Muslim women are weak and subordinate, and that Muslim men are violent and oppressive. This gendered Islamophobia reified the longstanding imperialist narrative that Muslim men were bent on war and tyranny, and that Muslim women—the immediate victims of this violence—needed saving. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 712

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the existing reader interest in sumptuary/moral-panic dress politics (the immodesty-complaints article) as a cognate dynamic with opposite target.