Muslim women’s bodies are coded as foreign carriers of cultural impurity.

Evidence

More specifically, Muslim “cultures” are perceived and represented as foreign, alien, and introducing cultural impurity—thus the need to code Muslim women’s bodies as foreign and decidedly not American—which is then directly linked again and again to the threat of terrorism (through Muslim men) and doubts about their loyalty to the United States. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 530

Categorization

• XREF: Mary Douglas’s purity/danger framework is the theoretical scaffold here — the intruding foreign body as pollution.
• DEFINE: Illustrates the ‘creeping shari’ah’ framing that reified these fears into state legislation.