Islamophobia Influencing Muslim Women Gender & Sexual Studies Essay
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Factors that enhance Islam phobia include racism, postcolonial guilt and fear, secularism, individualism, nationalist ideologies, and most importantly French norms of sexual conduct taken to be both natural and universal (Scott 10). The representation of Muslim sexuality as unnatural and oppressive, when compared to an imagined French of doing sex, promoted the banning of the veil.