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The Effects Of Polarization On The Feminist Muslim Women

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A Muslim woman who would like to identify herself as an Islamist and feminist at the same time meets with many questions and doubts, from outside and from within. The pressure faced by most of the Muslim activists and academics to identify themselves as "Muslim" or "feminist", prevents the spread of moderate thinking among this slice of educated Muslim women. This insistence on polarization has a negative effect on the feminist Muslim women. A woman who defines herself as a feminist Muslim is received as a contradiction in terms and the credibility of her argument becomes questionable. And this in turn gives one message is that one cannot be Islamist and feminist simultaneously because Western feminism condemns Islam and looks at it as a source
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