And while it’s nice of you to want to call us ‘modern’ or ‘moderate, ’ we’ll do without the redundancy. Islam is by definition moderate, so the more strictly we adhere to its fundamentals – the more moderate we’ll be. And Islam is by nature timeless and universal, so if we’re truly Islamic – we’ll always be modern. We’re not ‘Progressives’; we’re not ‘Conservatives’. We’re not ‘neo-Salafi’; we’re not ‘Islamists’. We’re not ‘Traditionalists’; we’re not ‘Wahabis’. We’re not ‘Immigrants’ and we’re not ‘Indigenous’. Thanks, but we’ll do without your prefix. We’re just Muslim. Yasmin Mogahed
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