Woman’s public visibility is framed as an ontological scandal in this genealogy

Evidence

“The key element of the genealogy of Islam is this passage from the woman as the only one who can verify Truth, to the woman who by her nature lacks reason and faith, cheats and lies, provokes men, interposing herself between them and God as a disturbing presence, and who therefore has to be rendered invisible. Woman, in other words, is an ontological scandal, whose public exposure is an affront to God.” — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 566

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the mechanism: woman repositioned from Truth-verifier to a disturbing presence requiring invisibility - a genealogy that supplies gendered Islamophobia’s metaphysical core.
• SEED: The ‘ontological scandal’ formulation could anchor an essay on how feminized visibility itself becomes the site of fear projection - a strong pivot-to-the-subject angle.