Practitioners contest the application, not the divine validity, of modesty norms

Evidence

Female Muslim converts refuse to be sexualized by Western society and thus don the veil as an emancipatory act of protection against the male gaze and mass consumption of female bodies in the public sphere. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 45 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Secularists reject the veil while preserving modesty as a feminine virtue — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 179; Moral standards vary by setting and allow selective application — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 217; Egyptian women students pragmatically push back against the modesty doctrine they are taught — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 705 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Veiling functions for converts as emancipatory protection from sexual objectification. #complicates (0.72) — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 45