Visible religious dress exposes Muslim women to continuous public surveillance

Evidence

“How are you adjusting to life in Maryland?” I asked Jihan in our common Levantine Arabic. “The people are welcoming, especially the family I am staying with,” she shared. “But I don’t like how people stare at me when I cross the street, or shop,” she continued. “My hijab invites too much attention … attention I’m not accustomed to,” she confided in me as she gripped the bottom of her headscarf. Hijab means “to cover” in Arabic, but Jihan’s hijab could not conceal her fear and anxiety. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 338

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Concrete lived testimony of ‘immodest dress’ stigma in reverse — the covered woman as target — complementing the dress-panic article’s focus on garb as class/political signaling.
• XREF: Echoes home-country harassment themes the reader already tracks across the chapter on Jihan’s surrogate-country burdens.