Do sisters writing about the Emma Barnett female Imams debacle, referring to their fight against ‘patriarchy’ realise that they are saying worse than anything Barnett did. They are literally parroting leftist/feminist/orientalist labelling of Islam as patriarchal?

We submit to the Divine, yes. The Divine is neither male nor female.

However the highest authority in our deen was the Prophet Muhammad S. who was a MAN. The eponyms of our foremost legal schools were MEN. The head of the family is the man. Are you fighting against that?

We had Mothers of the Believers who were also legal authorities - they are our matriarchs. Islam doesn’t fit the feminist paradigm.

Are we so intellectually colonised that we must use the language and labellings of Western feminism to view our own Deen?

Feminist discourse inherently mistrusts men. It is sexist. It sees men as pathologically unjust towards women. It is a terribly disempowering and fundamentally dishonest discourse.

Please think before you use these terms and become a mouthpiece for feminist ideology.

Feminist discourse on Islam today is what I call ‘GENDERED NEO-ORIENTALISM’