Dutch scholars weaponized adat against Islam as a civilizational threat.

Evidence

Vollenhoven espoused the view that any attempt at weakening adat was nothing less than an invitation to open the floodgates to Islam, a religion seen by Vollenhoven and many of his compatriots not only as a native political tool of unification, but as the very religion that had threatened Christendom for centuries. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 257

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the second published article on moral panics — here a scholarly-political panic over Islam’s spread framed as an ancient Christian threat, weaponized through legal policy rather than dress.