To be fair, the other desert religions - arguably the vast majority of religions in fact - are highly patriarchal. Fundamentalist Jews fuck through a hole in a sheet. Fundamentalist Christians consider women completely subservient at best. Fundamentalist Islam is just as bad, obviously.
Not all religious people are fundamentalist though. It’s a spectrum. I just feel that Muslims are held to a different standard - that their version of patriarchy is somehow fundamentally different and worse than (frankly) more white flavours of “sand prophets” believers.
That connotes underlying racism towards brown people above and beyond simple distrust of religious zealots.
The vast majority of Muslims I’ve known are neither extremely religious nor completely secular. They’re in that C of E-style, vaguely observant, mostly just one or two holidays, camp that the majority of “White British” tend to lie.
But, on the religious side - doubly so the patriarchal aspect - fuck all the Abrahamic religions and the talking donkeys they rode in on
too.
. It does get tricky in some cases, and the more you think about it, the more tricky it can become in some cases. I guess or hope it will become kind of instinctive. But that wont be good enough if proper explanations are required.
