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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The curious thing is how a religiously conservative Muslim will be defended by progressives, or at least tolerated with silence. As I stated above, I believe this is because in the hierarchy of power that the identity politics left subscribes to, conservative Muslims are not regarded as conservatives, but as brown people. And to them, brown people are lower in status (and therefore higher in sympathy) than the white establishment. So race trumps religion in Culture Wars.
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Is this really the case though on a widespread basis? Most feminists, etc., that I know are pretty quick to denounce Islam as patriarchal and regressive. I think it's more of a cognitive inability to properly discern between an argument that is critical of Islam and one that is critical of Muslims. There's also the whole "those in glass houses" business where you have a lot of white liberals who don't want to be seen as signalling out Islam for something they feel Christianity is also culpable of, regardless of the scale or frequency. I'm not saying it's a good response or anything, just disputing the simplistic terms you've framed it in.