Disagree. Comparison with Muhammad was to point the absurdity of the arguments of the crowds. If they follow their argument, they would close even the mosques, as the founder was a slave owner. Jesus was not. As madness continues, now "Gone With the Wind" is removed from HBO.
I'd been avoiding this part of the thread because it's wildly off topic. As a rule of thumb, I try to avoid drawn out discussions on my two favorite topics here. However, in the interest of an alternative view of the life of Muhammad and as a means to direct the conversation back to the original post, I'll comment on this matter exactly once.
To say that Muhammad could be viewed through the prism of being a "man of his time" on the issue of slavery is incorrect. He was radically different, and while he did not attempt to completely abolish slavery he did make manumission rather than enslavement the normative in the Sunnah.
Just how deeply involved in manumission was Muhammad? For starters, he freed and then adopted a slave to be his son. Zayd ibn Haritha was then made a commander in the Muslim armies, and is among the most important members of the sahaba. Similarly, Muhammad encouraged Abu Bakr to free Bilal. Afterwards, Bilal was made treasurer of the early Islamic state. There's more than a few ahadith concerning the activity of manumission, it's even one of only two options for a Muslim to "make up" for obligatory fasting during Ramadan.
Now, to get back on track, I think what you're trying to say here is that the zealous nature of modern progressive politics seeks ideological purity. If progressive voices are completely honest with themselves, why don't they
ahem "come for" complicated, largely non-white movements and figures they have aligned themselves with?
That's an easy one. The common thread is whiteness and the imposition of a white identity. It is viewed, in my opinion completely nonsensically, as being the causative agent in racism against everyone who falls under the rubric of "people of color." In addition when speaking of Muslims, there is a sentiment on the progressive left that we are a marginalized body. As victimhood is prized for them, ideologically, they see it as sensible to align themselves with us.
Keep in mind, I'm for the most part nobody's idea of a liberal. My highly conservative take on most social issues would make them clutch their pearls. But, because most of my co-religionists are brown and because we're subject to significantly more policing than other populations, there's cachet in identifying with our struggle (e.g. the Palestinian question, BOY do they love to wear a keffiyeh...)
I think where this conversation needs to be directed is how the left has become so open minded that its collective brain has fallen out. Abolish the police? Tacit support for political violence with apologia for rioters? The "problematic" nature of Paw Patrol (yes, that one is sadly real)?
There's a real issue here: the reality that black Americans are policed differently, that this has a body count, that we've never given proper redress for slavery, that there's a prison industrial complex in this country, that the wealth gap between white and black Americans is so absurd as to create two different Americas... It's just being muddled by the lunatic fringe currently speaking for everyone.
