Veiling Islamophobia

Framing Islam as bad for women means Muslim women are not seen as liberated unless liberated in specifically Western ways, manifest in several laws and judicial decisions regulating Islamic symbols.

by Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson

Western civilization has a long history of sustained, reductive, Orientalist discourses on the subject of Muslim women. Most often, these discourses revolve around the assumption that Muslim women need to be “rescued” by Western saviors in order to escape the universally violent and repressive forces of an amorphous Islam. Richa…