In-group feminist critique of Islam resists clean categorization.

Evidence

Does calling out Salafists and Islamists on their misgogyny and speaking on behalf of Egyptian as well as Muslim women in the “we” form count as reform of Islam from within, or is it rather its deconstruction from within? — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 564

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: This is the chapter’s central open question about where the line falls between intra-Muslim reform and deconstruction that feeds Islamophobia.

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