Religious conscience can override state law for both King and hijabi women

Evidence

For King, jailed in Birmingham, and the young Muslima quarantined in Montreal, being answerable to the moral dictates of their God overrode the legislation drafted and enacted by men. In fact, all white men in King’s case, and overwhelmingly white men in Lobna’s case. Men who stood between them and their God—waving the fist of the law and its warning of earthly punishment if they violated it. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 820

Categorization

• XREF: Links the hijab ban resistance to the American civil rights tradition the reader knows from the ‘immodesty’ moral panic article.