Hijab-wearing women’s bodies are treated as symbols of Islam’s threat and targeted accordingly.

Evidence

Yet she too was aware that after she decided to wear the hijab, her experiences changed. Zara told me that after 9/11, the mosque she regularly attended put up a barb wire fence in front of the windows because bricks and rocks had been thrown at these windows. Like mosques, Muslim women who wear the hijab symbolize the threat of Islam in America, and so their bodies are also subjected to violence and harassment. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 367

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core question about how surveillance/racialization touches bodies — parallels the mosque-as-target with hijab-wearing-body-as-target.