The gaze excluded Maham from national mourning and implicated her in the attack

Evidence

The gaze on Maham’s body felt to her like she was being implicated in the attack. The hijab is the object of the gaze because it signifies Islam, and Islam is equated with terror. The gaze took away from Maham the right to feel the shock and anger of the terrorist attacks with her fellow citizens. She was no longer a member of a national community but was singled out through the gaze as someone who did not belong and was the object of suspicion and anger. This is one of the ways that Muslim women who wear the hijab are racialized. Maham became the target of surveillance because her religious identity equates her to a foreign threat to the United States. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 268

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Prime interior-visceral material the reader asked for — the felt experience of being watched.

Related

• Hijab-wearing women’s bodies are treated as symbols of Islam’s threat and targeted accordingly. (similarity 0.82)
• The hijab makes Muslim women visible targets of displaced anti-terror anger (similarity 0.81)
• The hijab, not skin color, triggers citizen surveillance of Muslim American women. (similarity 0.81)
• The gaze restricts Muslim Americans’ mobility and civic participation. (similarity 0.80)
• Hijabi women alter their hijab color to avoid the racializing gaze (similarity 0.80)
• Surveillance burdens hijab-wearing Muslim women with stress and eroded individuality (similarity 0.79)
• Wearing the hijab triggers identity questioning from strangers (similarity 0.78)
• Removing the hijab lets Muslim women regain individual identity and escape racialized scrutiny (similarity 0.78)