After this period, however Muslims ceased to form part of the indigenous population in Western Europe. Early in its history, Islam had a presence in Europe from the 8th to the 15th centuries in Spain, as well as during some of this time in parts of Italy and Portugal. Islam, is typically called "Eastern" in ways the other two monotheistic religions, Judaism and Christianity, also originating in the East, are not. East and West connote geographies, cultures, and states of mind, very often in sliding and slippery ways. For such people feminism and Islam is either an anathema or an oxymoron. At the same time, there are many non-Muslims and westerners who make the same claims. Or they claim feminism is not "eastern" and thus not authentic, and implicitly or explicitly un-Islamic or against Islam. What is it? Where did it arise? From within or from without? Is it "legitimate"? What are its aims? Muslims often label feminism as "western" by Muslims and thereby discredit it.
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