Secularist feminists tied the French headscarf ban to revolutionary progress

Evidence

In a research report for the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Pascale Fournier wrote admiringly of the French decision to ban the hijab and connected it to France’s revolutionary tradition. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 353 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The law, driven by the belief that Muslim women were being “imprisoned” behind a “screen” by their husbands or fathers, simultaneously perpetuated two entwined gender stereotypes: that Muslim women are weak and subordinate, and that Muslim men are violent and oppressive. This gendered Islamophobia reified the longstanding imperialist narrative that Muslim men were bent on war and tyranny, and that Muslim women—the immediate victims of this violence—needed saving. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 712 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The French Revolution actively suppressed women’s political participation as unnatural.; Canadian feminists opposed to faith-based arbitration invoked French secularism as feminist progress — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 353; Canadian Muslim women’s research linked secular hijab bans to revolutionary progress — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 353 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Canadian Muslim women’s research linked secular hijab bans to revolutionary progress #corroborates (0.92) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 353
• France’s Hijab Ban inaugurated gendered Islamophobia that polices Muslim women’s bodies #complicates (0.78)
• Veil bans revived imperialist narratives about Muslim women needing saving #complicates (0.76) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 712