Kuala Lumpur 2009, launch of Musawah (movement for equality & justice in Muslim family): British Muslim woman told me “If I had to choose between Islam & feminism, I’d choose Islam”; Egyptian Muslim woman told me “If I had to choose between Islam & feminism, I’d choose feminism.” https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1292968537032663040

Where Muslims live as minorities, Islam can be a source of pride and identity and way to stand up to white supremacy and racism.

In Muslim-majority counties, Islam can be a source of oppression, used by regimes and political Islamic movements alike.

There is always a #NotAll.

And it can be very difficult to explain to Muslims who live as minorities and those in majority situations that their experiences of Islam are very different and contextual.

I am not an Islamic feminist.

I am a feminist who is a woman of Muslim descent.

I have experienced the various forms I describe above - in Egypt, UK, Saudi Arabia, USA.

And multiple places in between.

There is no monolith.

I wrote this while at the launch of Musawah 11 years ago in #KualaLumpur, about the importance of the movement in fighting violence against Muslim women, who themselves fight racism, misogyny and Islamophobia https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-sister-we-missed/article622921/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

And I wrote this in 2015 about atheism and the ways those who question or leave state-sanctioned institutionalized religion are punished in #Egypt https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/mona-eltahawy-egypts-war-on-atheism.amp.html