Secular feminist positions do not align neatly with neoconservative Islamophobia

Evidence

It is, nevertheless, difficult to categorize secular feminists, who may not always line up with neoconservative agendas, though there are plenty of examples of what Gayatri Spivak called “white women saving brown women from brown men.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Spivak’s ‘white men saving brown women from brown men’ — the citation text that frames the question of who gets to speak for colonized women; also relevant to my earlier notes on the veil as a contested symbol.