Claims about Muslim sexuality define Muslims as foreign to the United States.

Evidence

There is an important connection between gender and sexuality, both in how sexuality is mapped onto Muslim bodies and how Muslim attitudes to sexuality are used to define Muslims as other and as foreign to the United States. Concerns about sexual expression, repression, and control are also part and parcel of debates about Muslim women wearing headscarves or “the veil.” The hijab will occasionally appear in my discussion as an outward representation of Muslim women’s identity. However, it is a tired trope and one that has been discussed in academic literature in much detail already. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 488

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth mapping exactly which ‘sexuality mapped onto Muslim bodies’ mechanisms she names — repression, deviance, threat — and how each operates in courtroom or policy discourse.
• XREF: Echoes Said’s orientalism-as-othering and the broader ‘frightened subject’ pivot of the volume: sexual otherness is one mechanism by which the fearer defines the feared.