Europe casts Muslim men as armed jihadists and women as veiled Trojan horses

Evidence

For Europe, the “Muslim world” watches and waits from nearby and from within. It pumps waves of its “foot soldiers” across the Mediterranean, ready to fight on new fronts of the same longstanding crusade. A crusade where Muslim men are perceived as armed “jihadists,” that Arabic term mangled beyond recognition, prepared to strap themselves with bombs in furtherance of the violent theater of that crusade. … Meanwhile, Muslim women are the slowly plodding Trojan horse, planning and plotting, collectively conspiring to topple the secular law and the “civilization” it defends with that flag of Islam, that feared weapon Muslim women wear around their heads, and Muslim men brandish in their hands. Imaginations that move European states to pass law after irrational law in an attempt to remove it from existence. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 838

Categorization

• XREF: Could connect to the moral panic frame from the panic theory literature already in the knowledge base.