Muslim women’s bodies are the first targets of state Islamophobia

Evidence

The bodies of Muslim women, in societies where state-sponsored Islamophobia is rising or robust, are typically the first sites of state policing and legal regulation. This is vividly the case in France, starting with the Hijab Ban and expanding into other realms of feminine Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 713

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the author substantiate the ‘bodies first’ ordering across his other national cases beyond France, and does a parallel exist in the hijab bans elsewhere?