The Stasi Commission framed the hijab as female subordination and religious isolation.

Evidence

“The ‘hijab oppresses women’ narrative is not only racist, it is also sexist,” according to Dalia Mogahed, a former executive director for the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. “To assume a woman’s hijab was forced without asking her is to presume she views Western styles as ideal.” Mogahed also cited several Gallup surveys showing that about 90 percent of Muslims globally believe that hijab is a free choice by the vast majority of women who wear it all over the world. … “Oppression means the taking away of someone’s power and their agency. Yet a woman in a hijab is only covering her body and hair, not her voice or intellect,” she told the New York Times. “A man dressed in a full robe and head cover—like many do in the Middle East—is not said to be oppressed. To say that hijab oppresses women is to say that the source of a woman’s power—but not a man’s—is her body and not her mind.” — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 373 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 373; The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners; The oppressor stereotype itself oppresses hijab-wearing women. (+1 more)

Related

• The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners (similarity 0.86)
• The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women (similarity 0.86)
• The oppressor stereotype itself oppresses hijab-wearing women. (similarity 0.83)
• The Stasi Commission framed the hijab as a symbol of female subordination (similarity 0.82)
• Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman. (similarity 0.81)
• Citizens surveil hijabi women for supposedly violating American values (similarity 0.80)
• Private citizens surveil hijabi women and recast their dress as un-American (similarity 0.80)
• Removing the hijab is framed as an act befitting American citizenship. (similarity 0.80)
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing (similarity 0.80)
• Hijab-wearing women are caught between self-surveillance and resistance. (similarity 0.79)
• The ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype itself functions as oppression (similarity 0.79)
• The hijab functions as Islam’s most provocative symbol in Western public discourse. (similarity 0.79)
• Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated (similarity 0.79)
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. (similarity 0.79)
• Hijab-wearing American women are seen as both oppressed and dangerous (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 373
• The oppressor stereotype itself oppresses hijab-wearing women. #corroborates (0.60)
• The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners #expands (0.50)
• Removing the hijab is framed as an act befitting American citizenship. #corroborates (0.40)