Some orthodox Muslims finding common ground with right-wing religious nutjobs like Mom's for Liberty (who probably harbor anti-muslim sentiments and would bar their relatives from entering the U.S.) because they don't want their own children to see gay content, is a dangerous and slippery slope!

Article: When You Get In Bed With Bigots, Please Reconsider

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"Muslim-Americans who don't want children to see LGBTQ content should be wary about teaming up with right-winger to get there.
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What I do know, however, is that some Muslim Americans getting in bed, metaphorically, with the sorts of people pushing for book bans — if only to prevent their own children from seeing this age-appropriate material — is a dubious strategy.

Lindsey Smith is the Moms for Liberty Montgomery County organizer, which is designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a far-right extremist group. She was at the protest, according to coverage from the Catholic News Agency. David Weigel, writing an excellent mid-June piece in Semafor about the GOP trying to convince Muslim Americans there are no hard feelings about every Islamophobic attack of the past decades, quotes Smith: “We have the same family values. … [The Montgomery Co. Public Schools Board] created a team out of people they weren’t expecting to team up.”

And that’s a shame. To my Muslim neighbors and compatriots who don’t want their children to see any LGBTQ content, I warn you to be wary if you think teaming up with right-wing folks is the best way to get there.

The progressive community has had your collective back when right-wing nutters fretted that Sharia law was hiding under every bed, just waiting for ISIS to roll into town and turn our country into a caliphate. The Queer community is a pillar of that progressive community. If you want to break up with the Left and start dating a bigot — who used to say the worst things about you, treat you horribly, trip you in the halls — that’s your call. But we may not be there to pick up the pieces when their Islamophobic and xenophobic colors come shining through.

And you know they will."

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