French hijab bans rest on narratives contradicting Muslim women’s own accounts

Evidence

The movement to ban the hijab in France was built upon a narrative that went against everything I learned at home. Detroit was not Paris and America was not France, but the imperial tale of the headscarf as a tool of masculine Muslim oppression clashed with my mother’s story, and the millions more untold. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 804

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the global French Islamophobia case and connects to the immodesty-moral-panic article.