Ex-muslimi kritisoi nykyvasemmiston islam-lipoilua

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Edit: lopussa tärkeä lisäys

En tunne tämän Seattlessa ilmestyvän nettilehden (The Stranger) poliittista suuntautuneisuutta, mutta eipä se ainakaan miltään alt-right-saitilta vaikuta.  Sieltä löytyy artikkeli Sarah Haiderista, joka on (nykyisestä) nimestään huolimatta syntynyt muslimiperheeseen Pakistanissa, josta muuttivat USA:han Sarahin ollessa seitsenvuotias.  Perhe oli ilmeisesti islamilaisittain maltillinen, mikä kuitenkin tarkoittaa hyvin konservatiivista länsimaisella mittapuulla. 

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/06/14/40477576/ex-muslim-activist-sarah-haider-says-western-liberals-are-making-things-worse

Naperona Haider jopa diggasi perheen meininkiä:

She wasn't allowed to date, she was expected to have an arranged marriage, and couldn't sleep over at her friends' houses if there were any males present. Shorts, swimsuits, and tank tops were forbidden, but unlike some of her cousins, she could wear short-sleeved shirts and was never required to wear the hijab.

All this was normal for Haider, as it is for much of the world. There are nearly 2 billion Muslims on Earth, and while the spectrum of orthodoxy is as broad as any other major religion, Islamic doctrine preaches a certain level of modesty, something that, as a young person, Haider saw as perfectly fine. She was devout, and even though her parents didn't make her, she voluntarily wore the hijab for a time. She tried to convince her Christian friends in Texas that Islam was the only true faith and that their religion couldn't possibly be based on fact.

Teini-ikäisenä hänen mielensä kuitenkin muuttui, hänestä tuli ateisti ja hän vetää nykyään ex-muslimien asiaa ajavaa järjestöä:

But then, as a teenager, something changed. She would get into arguments with friends who were atheist, and the more they probed into her religion, the less she believed. If the stories in the Bible didn't make sense, were the stories in the Quran any more legit? The overlap between the two texts is significant, including characters and prophets. Moses becomes Musa and Abraham becomes Ibrahim but the gist is the same. The more she thought critically about it, the more she doubted.

"Intellectually, it stopped making sense," Haider told me in an interview. For the first time, she started to see serious problems with Islam, a patriarchal dogma with values that seep into culture and law, and not long after she lost her faith, she lost her religion, her identity, as well. Today, she runs Ex-Muslims of America, an organization that advocates for Muslim dissenters and promotes secular values.

Artikkelissa käsitellään Haiderin uskon menetystä ja hänen toimintaansa sen jälkeen.  Hän kertoo suhteen perheeseen olevan kunnossa, ja että hänen isänsä on jättänyt islamin (äiti ei).  Suosittelen artikkelin lukemista kokonaisuudessaan, jos kieli ei ole esteenä.  Mielenkiintoinen on myös Sarahin näkemys länsimaisen vasemmiston ilmeisestä kaksinaismoraalista (korostukset omiani):

I think foreign policy colors the conversations around Islam in the West. This is what makes things difficult for people on the left. When I first started this back in 2013, 2014, when we were first launching as an organization, I started to get pushback in a few different ways. I got it from secularist and atheists who were concerned that we were taking too harsh an approach towards religion. They wanted us to be humanist Muslims. They didn't want us to say, "This is not true. This is not real." They cringed at the idea that we would even want to call ourselves ex-Muslims. They thought that was a very harsh term. I remember being surprised by that. This was the same group of people who were very actively criticizing Christianity—not just criticizing but ridiculing Christianity. And some of those same people were hesitant to do that with Islam.

In the broader left outside of the secular, atheist context, things are so much worse in that it's assumed right from the beginning that I must be a bigot, I must be right-wing, I must have some kind of war-mongering, imperialist agenda. I get very frustrated. It's gotten to the point that I take for granted that I'm not going to be accepted by the broader progressive left.

It's not that I think Western liberals need to play a massive role when it comes to the conversation about Islam. It's just that I think the role they are playing now is counterproductive, at best. At worst, it is actively making things worse. It's making progress in this religious communities more difficult and adding onto these harms that people in the Muslim world already go through. What I hope is that they can start viewing Islam in the way they view Christianity and Judaism.

En usko, ettö Suomessa mikään valtamedian toimija julkaisisi tällaista artikkelia.  Haiderinkin mielestä tilanne on Euroopassa heikompi kuin jenkeissä:

Not only are liberals and Western progressives wrong, they are actively leading to a more toxic discourse around faith and this absolutely will have an effect on the broader political climate. It already has. This is less visible in the United States than in Europe, but it's very visible in Europe and the silence of the left and progressives in general on the specific problems Islam poses has empowered the right. I worry that the left already has made itself this ideologically vacuous force where it is really just tribal politics rather than principles.

Löytyisköhän Suomesta mitään tahoa, joka voisi ostaa tuon artikkelin ja kääntää sen kokonaisuudessaan omille lukijoilleen?  Suomen Uutiset?  Oikea Media?

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Lisäys:  Anter Yasa on kääntänyt artikkelin suomeksi jo puoli vuotta sitten:

https://www.anteryasa.fi/ex-muslimi-aktivisti-sarah-haiderin-mielesta-lansimaalaiset-liberaalit-vaikeuttavat-asioita/

Eipä ole valtamedia ottanut koppia.