Advocate a minority or even shadh opinion expressed somewhere by someone in the corpus of Islamic scholarship and so long as it conforms to modernist, liberal, feminist sensibilities, you are a sage traditionalist brimming with wisdom.

Advocate a majority or predominant position of the schools of thought within the Islamic sciences that conflicts with said modernist ideologies, and you are an out-of-touch, inflexible extremist who doesn’t understand context and is driving the Ummah to mass apostasy.