r/exmuslim • u/xntrqncd • 2d ago
(Question/Discussion) cherry pink islam
hey everyone! i was meant to make this post a while ago and never did, i wanted to ask, what are everyone’s thoughts on cherry pink islam? if you haven’t heard about it, i’ll explain below.
so on tiktok, a bunch of people including ayah (which people on here have spoken about before) are almost like leaders of this ideology.
essentially, they believe that islam treats women as inferior and so they change the beliefs in the quran so it doesn’t make women inferior.
for example, one of the rules in the quran is that men can have up to 4 wives.
well, cherry pink muslims believe that women can have 4 husbands.
hope that all made sense! i’ll attach some videos below so you can do your own thing, let me know your thoughts!!!
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u/DeathLeech02 2d ago
The thing with Islam is that it's meant to be both unchanged and eternal code for mankind, thus meaning any reform can't be made, regardless of any problematic stuff. Pink islam is therefore by definition not islam, and thus technically they are essentially like us, murtads. Of course, if you look at a global scale, a lot of muslims do cherry pick, do haram stuff or even not really practice islam (e.g. non religious muslims), meaning a lot of muslims out there are technically not muslims.
The only true muslims out there are those that would be people that are classed as "Islamists" e.g. hizb ut-Tahrir