{"id":34402,"date":"2026-04-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/antimuslim-racism-as-gender-politics-an-article-by-noemi-trucco-and-ahmed-ajil\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:10:43","slug":"antimuslim-racism-as-gender-politics-an-article-by-noemi-trucco-and-ahmed-ajil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/antimuslim-racism-as-gender-politics-an-article-by-noemi-trucco-and-ahmed-ajil\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimuslim Racism as Gender Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Swiss Protestant journal Neue Wege<\/em> dedicates its 3.26<\/strong> issue to the theme of authoritarian masculinity<\/em>. In this dossier, Noemi Trucco<\/strong><\/a>, sociologist at the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (CSIS)<\/strong> at the University of Fribourg, co-authors with criminologist Ahmed Ajil<\/strong> (University of Lausanne) an article titled ” Antimuslimischer Rassismus als Geschlechterpolitik. Von Widerspr\u00fcchen und Projektionen “<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors’ central argument is intersectional: hostilities towards Muslims do not unfold independently of gender relations, they are tightly bound up with them. The figure of the Muslim, in social and media representations, is gendered in advance, whether as the ” oppressive patriarch ” to be denounced or the ” veiled woman ” to be emancipated. These representations often serve to reframe internal gender issues within the majority society, displacing their burden onto the Other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trucco and Ajil highlight the contradictions of this discourse: under the guise of defending equality, it locks in rigid assignments and projects onto Muslims problems that European societies struggle to address at home. A useful analysis for understanding the gendered mechanisms of contemporary antimuslim hostility, at the crossroads of studies on racialisation, gender and religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To go further<\/h3>\n\n\n\n