I don't know if Maryam Namazie is gender critical or a RadFem but I have always admired her left wing and feminist stance against Islamic political and religious right wing movements. She is one of the few people on the left that denounces identity politics and it always pleases me to no end how uncomfortable she makes a lot of 'progressives' because she points out the issues with viewing all Muslim people as some monolith that needs unquestioning support, and oppressive clothing like the hijab are 'empowering' for Muslim women.
It's a really good article and I especially liked this bit -
Like ‘Britishness’, the concept of ‘Muslimness’ is fundamentally about exclusion. Britishness tends to exclude brown and black people. Muslimness tends to exclude doubters and dissenters – anyone not ‘authentically’ regressive enough, not veiled enough, not segregated enough, not submissive enough, not pro-Sharia enough, not modest enough, not angry enough and not offended enough. Everyone else is an ‘Islamophobe’, an ‘Uncle Tom’, a ‘native informant’, a ‘coconut’ or a ‘westernised, neo-colonialist.’
sister-hood.com/maryam-namazie/defining-islamophobia/
Maybe this isn't the best place to post this article, but most libfem and leftie spaces online cannot comprehend any critique of Islam and Islamic practices. Like the trans topic, they conflate anything other than unquestioning support as an indication of bigotry against Muslims.
The religious far right and the political far right are two sides of the same coin. As an Indian woman who spent the first 18 years of my life in Kuwait, I'm still immensely disappointed at the huge betrayal of the Left and Feminism in general in Western politics in its alignment with the religious far right in its desperate attempt to score points and 'appear' progressive. I can only hope the cancer of identity politics can be removed and replaced with actual solidarity.
Anyway, hopefully some others find it an interesting read as well. :)