Back when I was on Twitter (I left in 2016, about a month before Trump got elected), I used to follow Sarah Haider, an ex-Muslim who speaks out about problems with Islam. In the video below (long at 82 minutes, so watch at 2X speed), Haider talks about her life and many issues arising from what she does, which is provide support for other ex-Muslims. Haider notes the cruel irony of discovering, after leaving Islam and declaring herself a progressive, that American leftism/progressivism is all for a general, nebulous criticality about religion as an abstract concept, but the moment you narrow the focus to criticism of Islam in particular, leftists/progressives tend to back away slowly, thus highlighting yet another fundamental hypocrisy in that political ideology.
Even if you watch only the first ten minutes of this interview, you're going to learn something.
ADDENDUM: reference is made, early on, to Haider's 2022 Substack article. Find it here.
ADDENDUM 2: the most important part of the interview, for my money, is here. Haider denies that the problem is simply extremist Islamism: Islam as a whole is problematic.
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