But they're not butting heads. The Left opposes the religious taboos of the "antithesis" (the "counterrevolutionary" force) but supports the religious taboos of the "thesis" (the "revolutionary" or "oppressed" force). In fact, even the imposition of religious taboos is considered "revolutionary" and "multicultural" provided that it is the taboos of the "thesis" that are being imposed. Meanwhile, the slightest whiff of government sanction of the religious taboos of the "antithesis" is met with secularist mantras.
Finally the Left supports the very things it once opposed, provided they are being advanced by the "thesis" and not the "antithesis." Baptists want a dirty billboard removed? Those fascists aren't going to tell us what to do in this free country! Catholics object to publicly funded blasphemous artwork? Well, this ain't medieval Spain, sunshine. But when "oppressed, revolutionary" moslems demand that a dirty picture be removed or "blasphemous" artwork be defunded all the "secularists" suddenly switch gears and these things must be done or else we're a "chr*stian theocracy." In fact, they'll somehow use secularist ideology as a justification for it!
The big battle, if there ever is one, will be when moslems start demanding that their kids be exempt from being taught evolution. Now that will be interesting!
In the ideological constrcut known as "multiculturalism", Western civilization per se does not exist: the West is a force that steals, usurps, twists and destroys other, authentic cultures.
The West is not a culture: it is a vampire.
Segregation of women is thus a healing accomodation made by the evil vampires to the bearers of an authentic culture.
Complaints by Muslims are the complaints of a marginalized people yearning to reestablish their authentic cultural life.
Irish Catholics and Scots-Irish Baptists are, by definition, cultureless and their complaints are inauthentic and repressive - a desire to revive the evil vampirism of the West.
True, you don’t see much resistance from the left. It’s as if, in the butting of heads, we have the Islamists with hard skulls and minimal brain matter inside, and the leftists with only unprotected mush for brains. The issues are at odds, but the people espousing them are very differently outfitted.
Will the lefties ever gear up for the battle? Abandon their suicidal notions of tolerance and moral equivalence, and push back the barbarians?