I found this quote, Hob, may answer your question (hypothetically for I have no proof)
"The woman functions as a symbol of the site of weakness and vulnerability inside any male, who can be drawn into his own mortality through desire. The Muslim woman functions doubly as such a symbol. In this way, a fantasy is created that her annihilation will lead to safety and invulnerability The paranoid anxiety that keeps telling every man that he is not safe and invulnerable feeds the desire to extinguish her "
http://www.countercurrents.org/guj-nussbaum290704.htm
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