Oscar-nominated actor and Avengers star Mark Ruffalo, known for his left-wing activism, has recently drawn accusations of Islamophobia following his criticism of the right-wing initiative, Project 2025, which he likened to “the Sharia Law of the ‘Christian’ crazy people,” in a post on X last week.
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His comments drew a storm of criticism, with many accusing him of Islamophobia.
“White liberals will really not miss any opportunity to use Islam as the standard of what needs to be purged. White Christian nationalism is the founding ideology of your whole country, what the f*** do Muslims and sharia have to do with it?” wrote political comedian Aamer Rahman.
While some say Sharia Law is simply a synonym for Islamic law, those who fight against gender apartheid, the laws that restrict women’s freedom in Iran and other Islamic-rule countries, would disagree. In Afghanistan, for example, following the Taliban victory in 2021, girls and women are no longer allowed to attend school, while women in Iran are forced to wear hijabs or face arrest, torture, rape, and sometimes death at the hands of the Islamic Republic security forces. Many women’s rights activists such as Masih Alinejad have criticized Westerners for defending Sharia Law. She wrote on X, that she and other women who have lived under Islamic rule “have experienced Sharia laws and we know that; raping and killing is in the DNA of Islamic states.”
