communistroader:

It seems like the agenda of ‘progressive Muslims’ like Linda Sarsour and Dalia Mogahed is not to make Islam more progressive, but to make progressivism more Islamic. They don’t critique the veil as a mark of the second-class status of women, they want to keep the veil and change people’s perceptions of it. They don’t want a sober look at the immorality and inconsistency of the Qur’an, they want to keep the scripture and get critics to water themselves down lest they be insensitive. As I type this it’s dawning on me that this is the trend in ‘Leftism’ all along the line. Erstwhile progressives are joining arms with the most regressive political forces on offer, for the purpose of giving these forces a rebrand. Progress is turned on its head: it no longer means abandoning harmful traditions, it’s abandoning the recognition that those traditions are harmful at all.