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<\/a><\/p>\nAmong the biggest puzzlers of our time is why leftists are so supportive of Muslims, given their stance on women, LGBT issues, sexual morality, and other moral issues.\u00a0 Another is why Muslims are so supportive of leftists, given their<\/em> stances on those issues.<\/p>\n The first puzzle<\/a> can be partially solved by the leftist doctrine of \u2018intersectionality.\u201d\u00a0 Progressives maintain that Muslims are oppressed, due to Western colonialism and the \u201cwar on terrorism.\u201d\u00a0 Plus, most Muslims have brown skin, so they qualify as \u201cpeople of color.\u201d\u00a0 Intersectionality teaches that all oppressed groups\u2013women, homosexuals, Blacks, Hispanics, the disabled, etc.\u2014must become \u201callies\u201d of each other in their common struggle against white heterosexual male supremacy.<\/p>\n The second puzzle<\/a> is more puzzling.\u00a0 Apparently, Muslims feel that leftists are at least on their side and that progressive politicians serve their rational self-interests when it comes to immigration, opposing Israel, and the like.<\/p>\n But Muslims seem to be waking up\u2013as opposed to being \u201cwoke\u201d\u2013to the contradictions between their convictions and their leftist allies.\u00a0 In Dearborn, Michigan, which has a large Muslim population, parents of that religion have seen the explicit sex,\u00a0 promotion of homosexuality, and encouragement of gender changing in the public schools.\u00a0 Like Christian and even many liberal parents, they are shocked and appalled.\u00a0 So Muslims have been complaining at school board meetings, demonstrating, and exerting political pressure to get this kind of material out of the classroom and away from their children.<\/p>\n Progressives\u2013including the Dearborn congressional representative Rashida Tlaib, who identifies as Muslim and is a member with\u00a0 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the hard left \u201csquad\u201d\u2013 responded to the protests by calling them acts of \u201chate\u201d and \u201cbigotry,\u201d in which Muslims were manipulated by Republicans and the Christian right.\u00a0 And yet, the protesting Muslims were more successful than Christians usually are, and the books were removed.<\/p>\n Two Muslims, Zain Siddiqi and Farhana K., have written a fascinating explanation of the Dearborn protests.\u00a0 They give cogent reasons for opposing the sexualization of children in public schools\u2013reasons that Christians can agree with\u2013and go on to object to the condescension\u00a0 neo-colonialism and racism of the left.<\/p>\n From the online Islamic magazine Traversing Tradition,\u00a0<\/em>Dearborn Schools and the Protests against LGBTQ Books<\/a>:<\/p>\n The rhetoric leveled at protesters is largely ironic, considering that the Left has been long engaging in a subversion of the Muslim community in attempt to capitalize on the alienation perpetrated by the Right. Muslims have largely been convinced into supporting the Left\u2019s social causes as a means to better their own situation regarding issues like discrimination and immigration. . . .<\/p>\n The premise that Muslims protesting these schools are falling prey to \u201cculture wars<\/a>\u201d and are victims of a \u201cdangerous ideology<\/a>\u201d also suggests that Islam is not at all morally opposed to the material being presented in these books. While the Islamic attitude to sin differs from Christianity, it does not mean that Islam gives a green light to hypersexualized content. This is the same case for viewing homosexual acts as a sin. . . .<\/p>\n For years, Islam in America has been racialized in the political sphere, assumed to be fully onboard the progressive bandwagon, given the decades of discrimination and scrutiny. Since we as Muslims are under the boot with other minorities, we are expected to automatically band together and support all causes amongst the subjugated. This idea supposes that Muslims should abandon their principles in support of an amalgamated idea of a \u201cgreater good,\u201d an idea which contradicts the very spirit of Islam. . . .<\/p>\n We should note here that it is not only the sexual content and explicit nature of the books that are and should be protested. Considering the outrage to be restricted to \u201conly\u201d the pornography-esque presentation and not LGBT is a common refrain, but the situation is more nuanced than that. What is also being protested is the evolving nature of sexuality and hyper-sexualization of society. . . .What is at issue here is the condescending demands that the Muslim community confirm belief in hegemonic ideas about gender and sexuality, or be branded bigots.<\/p>\n Sexual activity between two men or two women fall under\u00a0liwat<\/em>, categorically forbidden in orthodox Islamic beliefs. Even if a Muslim were to engage in\u00a0liwat<\/em>, the\u00a0deen<\/em>\u00a0necessitates its rejection as a moral act necessitating\u00a0tawba<\/em>\u00a0(repentance). Furthermore, premarital intimacy is forbidden, and masturbation is largely prohibited. As such, even an ideal teaching and explanation of sexuality among Muslims conflicts with wider societal acceptance of fornication, masturbation, and affirming of same-sex sexual activity as moral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See also a similar response<\/a> to the LGBTQ Identity movement by a Muslim woman that we have blogged<\/a> about.<\/p>\n Shouldn\u2019t Christians make common cause with Muslims on these moral and civic issues?\u00a0 The article says that Muslim parents had no idea what their children were being exposed to, until a Christian woman showed them the textbooks.\u00a0 The authors say that while conservatives have sometimes favored discriminatory policies against Muslims\u2013mentioning Trump\u2019s restrictions on allowing Muslims into the country\u2013at least conservatives support religious liberty and moral truth.\u00a0 Maybe, the authors say, on an issue-by-issue basis Muslims can \u201cally\u201d with conservatives, using a term favored by the intersectionalists.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Photo:\u00a0 \u201cIftar at Habib\u2019s Cuisine in Dearborn<\/a>\u201d from GPA Photo Archives via Flickr, CC 2.0 License<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Left considers Muslims to be an oppressed group and so supports them in the name of intersectionality. 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