Religious proselytizers weaponized strangers’ sexual misreadings to recruit

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: Veiling functions for converts as emancipatory protection from sexual objectification. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 45; Sexual objectification of Muslim women fuses desire and military intervention fantasy; Muslim monsters in Gothic fiction are defined primarily as sexual perverts (+1 more)

Broader Connections