Islamophobia is gendered, casting Muslim men as violent terrorist threats

Evidence

As the rapper has said, “I am aware that in the eye of the average French person, I embody many fears and delusions: I am a rapper, I have Algerian roots, I am Muslim, and I grew up in housing projects.” Masculine Islamophobia, which stands oppositionally to how Muslim womanhood is imagined, conjures up the immediate fear of violence and rage, curated strategically by War on Terror handlers into the looming threat of the terrorist. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 759

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the earlier suppression/hijab-focus chapters on feminized Islamophobia to complete a gendered binary.
• SHARE: Médine’s self-description naming rapper/Algerian/Muslim/housing-project identity as the composite that frightens average French people is a sharp encapsulation worth sending to anyone tracking comparative Islamophobia.