Western women’s post-feminist agency is constructed against the figure of the oppressed Muslim woman.

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)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Native informants trace Muslim women’s oppression to Islam’s alleged lack of critical thought — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 476; Western media depicts Muslim women solely as passive victims stripped of agency — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 510; Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356 (+12 more)

Related

• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing (similarity 0.92)
• Western media depicts Muslim women solely as passive victims stripped of agency (similarity 0.91)
• The oppressor stereotype itself oppresses hijab-wearing women. (similarity 0.89)
• The perceived threats posed by female Muslim converts challenge false stereotypes about oppressed Muslim women and create fear for nationalists by challenging Western societal norms of… (similarity 0.89)
• Muslim women are simultaneously attacked as threats and pitied as victims (similarity 0.88)
• Blaming Islam for oppression omits Western support for repressive regimes (similarity 0.87)
• Media coverage of Muslim women collapses them into an oppressed-or-dangerous binary (similarity 0.87)
• The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women (similarity 0.87)
• Changing European society, not Muslim women, drove the oppression image (similarity 0.86)
• Gendered Islamophobia imposes the most distorted stereotypes on veiled Muslim women. (similarity 0.86)
• Native informants trace Muslim women’s oppression to Islam’s alleged lack of critical thought (similarity 0.85)
• Neoconservative discourse exploits women’s rights to mark Islam as foreign. (similarity 0.85)
• The ‘oppressed Muslim woman’ stereotype itself functions as oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Media reporting frames Islam’s treatment of women as uniquely and exceptionally oppressive. (similarity 0.85)
• The hijab functions as Islam’s most provocative symbol in Western public discourse. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Neoconservative discourse exploits women’s rights to mark Islam as foreign. #corroborates (0.60)
• Some American feminism serves imperial goals toward Muslim women. #corroborates (0.60)
• Western discourse displaces Muslim threats onto obsessing over women’s clothing #corroborates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 356
• Media coverage of Muslim women collapses them into an oppressed-or-dangerous binary #corroborates (0.55) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 407
• The oppressor stereotype itself oppresses hijab-wearing women. #expands (0.50)
• Hijab-wearing Muslim women self-surveil under scrutiny while claiming agency through it #corroborates (0.50) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 390
• The hijab-oppresses-women narrative is sexist and contradicts surveyed Muslim women #corroborates (0.50) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 373
• Muslim women’s educational attainment belies claims of universal oppression #contradicts (0.50) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 483
• Islamophobic discourse uses Muslim women as pawns to serve imperial and domestic agendas #expands (0.50)
• The perceived threats posed by female Muslim converts challenge false stereotypes about oppressed Muslim women and create fear for nationalists by challenging Western societal norms of… #complicates (0.45)
• The oppressed-Muslim-woman narrative was fabricated to justify colonial invasion. #expands (0.45) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 164
• Erasing non-Western feminist activity constitutes a silencing Islamophobic move #corroborates (0.45)
• Muslim women alter dress and demeanor to counter surveillance-based stereotypes. #corroborates (0.45)