The War on Terror targets a religiously defined region, making hijab-wearing women stateless foreigners

Evidence

One of the difficulties involved in discussing the threats that Muslims face today is the tendency of those having the conversations to change the subject. For example, there are very few conversations about Islam today which do not ultimately end up touching upon the type of clothing that many Muslim women choose to wear. Instead of focusing on Donald Trump’s Muslim travel bans, or the meteoric rise of right-wing white supremacist neo-Nazi groups in virtually every industrialized nation, many Westerners still cannot lower their obsessive gaze from female Muslim religious attire. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The surveillance of beauty is another way that Muslim American women who wear the hijab are surveilled for their cultural practices. Whiteness has become a marker of beauty and privilege both in the United States as well as in countries that make up the southern hemisphere, such as India (Hunter 2011). This is evidenced by the increased interest and use of skin lightening creams both in the United States and internationally. Hunter (2011) refers to “racial capital” as a material benefit people possess based on their skin tone. In a racialized society, the lighter one’s skin tone, the more access one has to economic resources such as jobs or social networks (Glenn 2009; Hunter 2011). Muslim women who wear the hijab were told wearing it made them ugly; they are also racialized for their beauty. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 292 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad.; The Stasi Commission framed the hijab as female subordination and religious isolation.; Citizens surveil hijabi women for supposedly violating American values (+13 more)

Related

• Citizens surveil hijabi women for supposedly violating American values (similarity 0.88)
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing (similarity 0.87)
• The hijab marks Muslim women instantly and provokes hostile public encounters (similarity 0.87)
• Private citizens surveil hijabi women and recast their dress as un-American (similarity 0.86)
• The Stasi Commission framed the hijab as female subordination and religious isolation. (similarity 0.86)
• The hijab functions as Islam’s most provocative symbol in Western public discourse. (similarity 0.86)
• The hijab rather than skin tone triggers racializing surveillance of Muslim women (similarity 0.85)
• The hijab signals foreignness so strongly it overrides ethnicity and skin tone (similarity 0.85)
• Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated (similarity 0.85)
• Private citizens surveil Muslim women for cultural transgression and men for security threats (similarity 0.85)
• Citizen surveillance targets hijab-wearing women publicly but men privately as suspected terrorists (similarity 0.84)
• The hijab, not skin color, triggers citizen surveillance of Muslim American women. (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim women’s bodies are the first site of state policing in Islamophobic societies (similarity 0.84)
• Muslim women are simultaneously attacked as threats and pitied as victims (similarity 0.84)
• US War on Terror frames enable mass internment and ethnic cleansing abroad. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror metastasized into a global network of state crusades against Muslims #expands (0.70)
• The hijab rather than skin tone triggers racializing surveillance of Muslim women #expands (0.70) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 292
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing #corroborates (0.70) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356
• Muslim women are surveilled for cultural transgression while men are watched for terror potential #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 92
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #corroborates (0.60)
• Citizen surveillance targets hijab-wearing women publicly but men privately as suspected terrorists #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 347
• Clash of civilizations framing located terrorism’s cause within Islam itself #expands (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 266
• Hijab-wearers and mosques both symbolize Islam’s threat and face violence #corroborates (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 506
• The hijab marks Muslim women instantly and provokes hostile public encounters #corroborates (0.50)
• Private citizens surveil hijab-wearing women and challenge their American identity #corroborates (0.50) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 77
• Fear of violence after terror attacks places hijab-wearing women under house arrest. #expands (0.50)
• Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated #corroborates (0.50)
• The hijab functions as a symbol of defiance against colonialism and Islamophobia #qualifies (0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 454