hijabophobia

Also known as discrimination based on wearing hijab, discrimination based on fact of wearing hijab, discrimination based on wearing traditional Muslim women's clothing, discrimination based on fact of wearing traditional Muslim women's clothing, hatred to Muslim women who wears hijab, discrimination based on wearing traditional Islamic women's clothing,

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thumb|Anti-hijab installation at a park in Malmö. Hijabophobia is a type of religious and cultural discrimination against Muslim women who wear the hijab. The discrimination has had manifestations in public, working and educational places.

== Analysis == Hijabophobia is a term referring to discrimination against women wearing Islamic veils, including the hijab, chador, niqāb and burqa. It is considered a gender-specific type of Islamophobia, or simply "hostility towards the hijab". The term is applied to discourse based in colonial representations of Muslim women as victims oppressed by misogynistic cultures in academic circles.