"Bonfire of the Pieties" Jeff writes that: "the “branding” of what is “official” Islam can only be settled by a will to power, and by an adherence to identity politics that allows for the strong (often armed or more devoutly militant) within a particular identity group to claim control over that group’s narrative and become its public face.

Dissenters, once internecine battles have been settled, are then marginalized or excommunicated. They are inauthentic (as Taheri has been called) or (in other contexts) are “race traitors” or women “in denial” of their own oppression."

Jeff goes on about the danger of identity politics, including the usefulness to those who just want power.