Rising Islamophobia causes some Muslim women to adopt the veil as political resistance

Evidence

In response to rising Islamophobia in France and the United States, many Muslim women who previously did not veil did so as an act of political resistance. For some, spirituality or politics, or a combination of both, spurred this pivot. In the case of Algerian women fighting for independence against the French, the hijab and the niqab were converted into instruments for liberation, through which armed revolutionaries safely passed military checkpoints under their anonymizing shields. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 846

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’: the veil’s reverse trajectory — adopted as political weapon against French colonial rule — complements the historical dress-as-signaling thesis with a decolonial resistance case.
• XREF: Connects to Beydoun’s own earlier material (read alongside Iftikhar), plus parallels post-9/11 American increased veiling scholarship (e.g., the documented rise in hijab adoption after 2001 as solidarity/resistance). — connects to: Forced unveiling campaigns backfire by driving women to adopt the veil; The veil functions as feminist resistance and liberation, not only oppression — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 305; France’s 1958 forced unveiling drove Algerian women to adopt the veil as protest — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 302 (+3 more)