This post is not intended to be about bashing Muslims. It is about how these 3 women who try to balance criticism of Islam and its culture without inspiring bigotry towards their own families and friends and how life is like being an Ex-muslim woman. They want normalize becoming an Ex-Muslim and normalize it being acceptable to be critical of Islam while not being bigoted towards Muslims as a people.
They support woman who are devout who wish to wear the hijab. However, they think many women are forced to wear it who do not want to wear it. And women are forced to do a lot of things that they don't want to do. They say women in fundamental homes are considered candy that must be wrapped up. If someone opens the wrapper and licks it, it will be ruined for others. Wearing a conservative clothing actually makes women seen as hypersexual. They are seen as something to be consumed.
In more fundamental households women are seen as temptresses and there is often distrust between men and women in the conservative Islamic world. If a man and a woman are a room together, they are not alone. The devil would join them. It makes it to difficult for men and women to have any conservations.
Hiba said that the idea of positionality - speaking from a X (an idea that is popular among some hard left college students) leads people to say I cannot speak out against say FGM because I come from a imperialist or colonial background, so I cannot say anything about this cultural issue because I don't want to impose my culture and values. So you get those sorts of folks ending up supporting or afraid to speak out against someone like Linda Sarsour. She might be someone who they see as a representative of someone with an authentic Islamic background and culture and they don't want to impose their values on her. So far left folks end up supporting conservative Muslims. Shit that is probably not clear.
They support woman who are devout who wish to wear the hijab. However, they think many women are forced to wear it who do not want to wear it. And women are forced to do a lot of things that they don't want to do. They say women in fundamental homes are considered candy that must be wrapped up. If someone opens the wrapper and licks it, it will be ruined for others. Wearing a conservative clothing actually makes women seen as hypersexual. They are seen as something to be consumed.
In more fundamental households women are seen as temptresses and there is often distrust between men and women in the conservative Islamic world. If a man and a woman are a room together, they are not alone. The devil would join them. It makes it to difficult for men and women to have any conservations.
Hiba said that the idea of positionality - speaking from a X (an idea that is popular among some hard left college students) leads people to say I cannot speak out against say FGM because I come from a imperialist or colonial background, so I cannot say anything about this cultural issue because I don't want to impose my culture and values. So you get those sorts of folks ending up supporting or afraid to speak out against someone like Linda Sarsour. She might be someone who they see as a representative of someone with an authentic Islamic background and culture and they don't want to impose their values on her. So far left folks end up supporting conservative Muslims. Shit that is probably not clear.