The hijab makes Muslim women visible targets of displaced anti-terror anger

Evidence

The other interviewee suggested that Muslim women could disguise the hijab by wearing a baseball cap over it. Within the context of the United States, women who wear the hijab are treated as unwelcome because they are seen to represent an “enemy within” who has managed to infiltrate American borders. … Because the hijab symbolizes Islam to the American public, Muslim women who wear it have become open targets for those who view Muslims as the enemy, enduring the anger the public has toward terrorism. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 41

Categorization

• XREF: This is the visual-marking mechanism analogous to how skin color marks race in other accounts; supports the reader’s religion-racialized-as-race thread.