Like its epistemological mother, Islamophobia is strategic with its deployment of “imperial feminism,” and as governments across the globe spearhead Islamophobic crusades in the form of hijab bans and the regulation of Muslim women's bodies, disregarding Islamophobia's gendered dimensions would veil its most menacing tentacles. … Following the intellectual direction of pioneering Muslim feminists like Fatema Mernissi, The New Crusades seeks to unveil how societal and state-sponsored Islamophobia is often first concerned with policing female bodies: “The so-called modesty of [Muslim] women is in fact a war tactic.”

XREF: Connects to contemporary debates about hijab bans in France and the weaponization of 'imperial feminism' in Western foreign policy discourse.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 44