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In this article I investigate why two shows from different television genres in two different countries resort to nearly identical costume choices to convey villainy. I argue that that the directors, writers, and costume designers for the US science fiction showStargate SG1and BBC'sMerlinuse orientalist tropes of the veil as exotic, oppressed or threatening as costumes for their non-Muslim characters because of the centuries-long association in Western culture between Muslim veiling and the Other, while differentiating between acceptable and unacceptable headgear and face coverings. I draw on Said's Orientalism, Hall's Encoding/Decoding, medievalism, and the theory of the ethnonormative viewer to make this case. The "veil" has become an iconic negative sign in the West wholly distinct from meanings given to it by veiled Muslim women themselves. I suggest that anti-veiling ideology in Western publics stems in part from negative connotations given to it in television shows likeStargate SG1andMerlin.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Silent Revolution of a Muslim Arab American Scholar-Activist -- Chapter Two Allah Doesn't Change the Condition of People until They Change Themselves -- Chapter Three War Zones -- Chapter Four Activism as a Way of Life -- Chapter Five My Life Journey -- Chapter Six Rawahil -- Chapter Seven Rocking the Boat and Stirring the Pot -- Chapter Eight Struggling with Words, Striving through Words -- Chapter Nine Working to Help All the World's Children -- Chapter Ten Building a Community for the Next Generation -- Chapter Eleven In Pursuit of Peace and Justice -- Chapter Twelve Activism -- Chapter Thirteen Activism -- Chapter Fourteen Life of a Muslim Woman Activist -- Chapter Fifteen Muslim Activist -- Chapter Sixteen Taking the Bus to the World of Islamic Activism -- Chapter Seventeen Is the Reward for Good Other than Good? -- Chapter Eighteen Undoing Internalized Inferiority -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors

Introduction / Paul Nesbitt-Larking 1. - Reflections on the Journey / Nawaz Tahir16. - 1. Democracy and Islam: The Incompatible Puzzle / Maryam A. al-Sayyed 20. - 2. Islam and Democracy in the Thought of Fazlur Rahman and Sayyid Abuʻl-A'la Mawdudi / Jon Armajani 37. - 3. Beyond Jamaat-e-Islami: The Political Rise of the Deobandis, the Mystic Leaders, and Islamism in Bangladesh / Humayun Kabir 50. - 4. From the Canadian Shari'a Debates to the Arab World: Developing a Qurʻan-Based Theology of Democracy / Nevin Reda 78. - 5. Kharijites and Qarmatians: Islamic Pre-Democratic Thought, a Political-Theological Analysis / Marco Demichelis101. - 6. Could Civil Marriage Help "Preserve Religion" in Muslim-Majority Countries? / Ingrid Mattson128. - 7. Fragmented Egyptian Islamism: Contesting Islamist Theories and Practice / Gillian Kennedy 147. - 8. Framing Islam and Democracy: Civic Engagement in a Canadian Muslim Organization / Katherine Bullock 171. - 9. Islam and Democracy: The Political Culture of Muslims in Europe / Sabrina de Regt 195. - 10. Islam and Democracy: Voices of Muslims amongst Us / Davide Tacchini and Amédée Turner 228. - 11. Islam and Democracy: Prospects and Pathways / Susan Khazaeli and Daniel Stockemer 242. - 12. Religiosity and Support for Democracy: A Contribution to the Compatibility Debate Through a Comparative Perspective / Nazli Çağin Bilgili 263. - Closing Reflection / Mahdi Tourage and Jonathan Geen 292. - Conclusion / Nawaz Tahir and Ingrid Mattson 296