Family members pressure hijabi women to remove the hijab out of fear

Evidence

This experience highlights the contradiction in the dominant notion that Muslim men force their wives or kids to wear the hijab. In this example, Reema’s husband desperately wanted to avoid any surveillance or negative interactions, so he tried to persuade his wife to remove her hijab. The fear that Muslim men felt from the state was real, and the attempt to control Reema’s dress reflected the stark difference in how men responded to their surveillance compared to women. Muslim men did not express the desire to transform the narrative of Muslims through their actions. Instead, they wanted to make invisible their religious identity. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 611 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hijab-wearing women self-impose house arrest out of safety fear — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 488; Removing the hijab restored women’s ability to pass for white; Fear of violence after terror attacks places hijab-wearing women under house arrest. (+1 more)

Related

• Fear makes Muslim men pressure wives to remove the hijab, inverting the stereotype (similarity 0.91)
• Hijab-wearing women self-impose house arrest out of safety fear (similarity 0.89)
• Fear of violence after terror attacks places hijab-wearing women under house arrest. (similarity 0.87)
• Fear of violence pressures hijab-wearing women to change their dress, even from protective family. (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim men sought to hide religious identity while Muslim women resisted removal (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim men sometimes pressed women to remove the hijab for safety (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance pressure makes Muslim men erase rather than transform their identity (similarity 0.85)
• Hijab-wearing women are caught between self-surveillance and resistance. (similarity 0.85)
• Hijab-wearing women altered dress and demeanor under citizen surveillance (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim women alter their dress in response to fellow citizens’ surveillance, not male oppression (similarity 0.84)
• Surveillance pressure to represent an entire collective erodes hijabi women’s individuality (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim men escape stranger harassment but women in hijabs do not (similarity 0.83)
• Some hijab-wearing women resist surveillance by reclaiming public space (similarity 0.83)
• Citizen surveillance constrains hijabi dress more than Muslim men do (similarity 0.83)
• A hijab-wearing woman’s daily life is governed by family fear of attacks (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Muslim men sought to hide religious identity while Muslim women resisted removal #exemplifies (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 611