The cool and hip, if occasionally shouty, face of young Islam in Australia, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, opines that if sharia law has got some rough edges it’s all the fault of dead white males. Yes, you’ve read it correctly – the White European colonisers have turned the progressive and feminist sharia into a tool of patriarchal oppression:

The advent of modern colonisation, starting with the British East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch entering India and Indonesia in the late sixteenth and seventeeth Centuries, would eventually lead to some pretty drastic changes in how Sharia was practised and understood.