There is a Hadith: Sometimes God assists faith through sinners. Like the soft secularism of Abu Talib except that he was indifferent to Ishmaelite equivalent of Eros.
Maajid has a conviction that his past traditional credentials are too sound that he can dare to be a radical doormat. While secular or post-secular Muslims like Benazir and Edhi want to be good role models of western humanism.
God bless Christian humanism which civilized greco-roman polytheism.
Feminism in traditional world died at the Battle of Jamal.
Quran teaches that temptations like soft secularism are long-term strategic temptations which affect the soul of Islam in a deeper way that militant secular or sectarian violence. The resistance to modern cultural activism lies in Quranic ethics or akhlaq more than dialectic.
A spiritual Ishmaelite 