The headscarf symbolizes a feared demographic challenge to European secular identity

Evidence

The head scarf, more broadly, has come to represent for Europe the threat of reproduction, fear of a Muslim planet. Of Euro-Muslims becoming a major minority, making Europe less secular, less Christian, less liberal. The head scarf, in short, is the symbol of more Muslim men. Of anxieties about enigmatic extremism, excessive violence, suicidal mass death. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 873

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ — another case where dress signals carry political-demographic weight, here the headscarf as a proxy for reproduction and civilizational fear rather than mere modesty panic.
• XREF: Echoes the moral panics literature and demographic-threat rhetoric about Muslim birth rates common in far-right discourse.