Inside the Muslim Manosphere Policing Women Online

Key points

• Mariam, who administers a Facebook group for women in the United Arab Emirates with close to 400,000 members, says she has received a flood of unsolicited messages telling her how to dress and behave. Researcher Sarah Kaddoura says influencers blend misogynistic ideas with religious authority to justify harassment of women online.
• A 2026 Institute for Strategic Dialogue study of comments on Instagram in Jordan found that women were the main targets of abuse.
• Kaddoura also says recommendation algorithms can push misogynistic content to users who engage with it.