“A leaked memo shows that the Trump White House was advised by the State Department to promote an ‘Islamic Reformation’ and to use women and young people in the Muslim majority world to front it. [...] Focusing on female-empowerment as the primary information messaging goal within the Islamic-influenced world will allow the United States to maintain a moral component for American power and its liberation narrative.”42

Focusing on women and youth to control the Muslim world and distort Islam is not new. It has always been the central strategy of colonizers, not only in the Muslim world, but also Native America, aboriginal Australia, China, etc. for the past few hundred years.

Colonizers like Lord Cromer and others specifically focused on the claim that European values and European men came to empower Muslim women while Islamic values and Muslim men imprisoned women, abused them, subjugated them. They argued that Islamic law needs reform in order to accommodate women’s rights. First and foremost, Muslim women must take off hijab and dress like European women to be “free.” Second, women have to refuse and resist any and all male authority, whether the husband’s’, the father’s, or the male scholar’s. Furthermore, the “barbaric” institution of polygyny must be abolished. Muslim women must insist on leaving “domestic drudgery” and joining the workforce, which conveniently meantbecoming cheap, dispensable laborers for the colonizers. And much more that has been meticulously documented in many academic works. The ultimate purpose of this multi-pronged attack was to destroy the Muslim family. The colonizers aimed to destroy that critical, central institution of Islam and the Ummah, which is the strong, cohesive Muslim family, pitting wives against husbands, daughters against fathers, sisters against brothers, to slowly but surely gain complete control of and authority over the Muslim masses. This has always been the plan.

All this was done under the mantra of “female empowerment.” That’s how it was marketed for the last couple of centuries. This is why Muslim feminists with their calls to upturn the tradition and reform the Sharia are simply advancing the work of colonizers and imperialists. This is why it is a contradiction in terms to be a feminist and “decolonial” or “anti-imperialist” at the same time.

I am often accused by detractors of being “obsessed” with feminism and its activism. Well, it’s not my fault that the main path of attack on Islam is through women’s issues, as good ol Trump’s State Department made clear in the leaked memo. I, for one, am not going to sit back and ignore this critical issue and let enemies feast on the Ummah unimpeded. I have often detailed the nefarious activities of Muslim reformist group in the US and how they are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from the US government to advance “Muslim women’s empowerment.” Many wonder why the US government would pump so much money to help out small Muslim orginizations. Well, here is your answer. It is all part of the overarching plan to reform Islam according to the vision of imperialists. These reformist and feminist orgs are simply their enthusiastic agents aggressively trying to infiltrate our masjids, Islamic schools, etc.