POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Joan Wallach Scott, Hijab, Nationstates

• School: UTSG
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL101Y1
• Professor: Matthew Hoffman

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Reading journal 3: (cid:838)the politics of the veil: introduction(cid:839) by joan wallach scott. The i(cid:374)t(cid:396)odu(cid:272)tio(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:862)the politi(cid:272)s of the veil(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) joa(cid:374) walla(cid:272)h (cid:272)ott holds the thesis that. French policymakers banned the muslim headscarf, or veil, in order to establish an ideal national identity in which everyone has the same values and beliefs as the republic. To claim this, wallach scott, gives an understanding of how western europe views the muslim religion and why the veil was chosen and not another symbol of religion. Western europeans in nation-states such as france and germany, have the misconception that the religious practices of extreme islamist minorities represent the (cid:862)(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e(cid:863) of all the (cid:396)eligio(cid:374). This (cid:373)is(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) (cid:272)(cid:396)eates a (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e (cid:448)ie(cid:449) to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds musli(cid:373)s. thus, the current religiosity of muslims in europe is both a product and reaction to westernization, not a throwback to earlier practices, as the french sociologist oliver roy describes.