Coopted Muslim women blur the line between willing and unwitting Islamophobes.

Evidence

Of course, the charge of racism against someone who is not “white” could only be an insult! Women of Muslim background have to varying degrees been coopted into the machinery of Islamophobic discourse and at times it seems hard to know where to draw the lines between those willingly participating in the production of such discourse, for monetary reward and/or to advance their political and intellectual agendas, and scholars, activists, and journalists, “native” or not, who seem to feed into Islamophobic discourse by buying into its premises or by supplying the “machinery” with additional arguments and material. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 559