Hijabophobia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Fear of hijabs; Islamophobia directed at hijabi women. uncountable

Etymology

From hijab + -o- + -phobia. Attested in books at least as early as 1999, but popularized in academic usage much later by scholars like Manal Hamzeh in 2012.

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