Suspicion of Islamist terrorism can fall even on people with un-Islamic lifestyles

Evidence

After a one-night stand with Tariq, a computer programmer and drug mule, Gina Davis (a.k.a. the Doll)—stripper and pole dancer at a nightspot frequented by the rich and powerful—finds herself on the run in Sydney, Australia, as police hunt her and her lover, a suspected Islamist terrorist. … Her decidedly “un-Islamic” lifestyle is projected as the perfect deep cover for a terrorist and feeds paranoia in a society where everyone can fall under suspicion. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 356

Categorization

• XREF: Direct feed for the reader’s hinge project: the emptied-out ‘terrorist’ label that can stick to anyone parallels the protagonist displacements in Hamid’s Reluctant Fundamentalist and Naqvi’s Home Boy.