Modern selfhood is constructed by freeing Muslim women and confining Muslim men

Evidence

Disrupting stereotypes of Muslim patriarchy and masculinity, Ahmad gives up his life as a rock star and his home, to move to New York to marry the woman he loves and begin a new life as a pushcart vendor. When she dies, Ahmad is left as a single male immigrant who must sacrifice himself for his son and others. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 880 (#complicates, via linked claim)

A major factor in the emancipation of women was economic need. Peasant women had from time immemorial been part of the work-force and had, in consequence, enjoyed certain social freedoms denied to their sisters in the cities. Economic modernization brought a need for female labor, which was augmented by mobilization for modern war. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1147 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Well-meaning feminist rescue of Muslim women can itself destroy life worlds — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 585; Economic need, not ideology, drove women’s emancipation in Muslim societies — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1147; American Muslim women are stereotyped as liberated in contrast to less free foreign sisters — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 499 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Sacrificial male caretaking complicates stereotypes of Muslim patriarchy #complicates (0.78) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 880
• Economic need, not ideology, drove women’s emancipation in Muslim societies #complicates (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1147