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Originally Posted by Thor
Silenced is a bad word, disliked by many of his fellow Muslims, and many of his fellow Liberals, loved by Conservatives. He created the term the Regressive left because how much backlash his direct and honest response to problems within Islam in the west and wanting to face it and try to have real dialogue. That should be championed by fellow liberals, but many of us have become afraid to speak about Islam critically for fear of sounding like the right wing who attack Islam on much harsher grounds.
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I don't think that this is quite accurate. As I understand it, Nawaz coined the term "regressive left" to describe the difficulties posed by moral relativism (as an academic or scientific position) for political discourse. Anthropologists do not make for effective or useful political commentators.
That is an interesting but not at all widespread problem. For example, I seriously doubt that anyone who posts on this forum could be described as a moral relativist. Noam Chomsky is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a moral relativist.
Now, "regressive left" has really just become a snarl word applied to people that one disagrees with (it seems to me anyway.)
EDIT: And just for the record, I think that Nawaz is a very intelligent, serious, and interesting thinker.