Just like black conservatives shunned as “Uncle Toms” for not toeing the Democratic party line, female Muslims who decry how Islam mistreats their gender are rejected as blasphemers and traitors.

It’s a phenomenon that takes place on college campuses, mostly recently at Duke University, where Asra Nomani—a former Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam”—was temporarily disinvited from her speaking gig there earlier this month after its Muslim Students Association complained she is an Islamophobic sympathizer.

What prompted such a label? Among other things, she’s advocated that women and men should be allowed to pray in the same areas within a mosque, and that “Muslim women have the right to orgasm, an intimacy too often denied in societies with a tradition of female genital mutilation.”

She eventually gave her talk at Duke, which called the disinvitation a misunderstanding. “By standing on stage, I was standing up to the forces in our Muslim communities that are increasingly using tactics of intimidation and smears such as ‘Islamophobe,’ ‘House Muslim,’ ‘Uncle Tom,’ ‘native informant,’ ‘racist’ and ‘bigot’ to cancel events with which they disagree,” Nomani stated in a recent Time op-ed.

In her piece, Nomani also cited how difficult it is to get the documentary “Honor Diaries” screened on college campuses. The film chronicles the many hardships women endure under Islam, but opponents have decried it as shallow and claim it incites prejudice against Muslims.

In March, an “Honor Diaries” screening was abruptly canceled at the University of South Dakota, but was eventually shown this month as part of the annual Women and Gender Conference, and after pressure not to kowtow to hyperbolic attacks. But over the last year, several universities have canceled screenings, including the University of Michigan at Dearborn and the University of Illinois in Chicago.

And of course there’s human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who openly admits she considered herself once a member of the Muslim Brotherhood but who today speaks out against the religion’s treatment of women. Last spring, she was disinvited to speak at Brandeis University for that, and Muslim students at Yale University tried their best last fall to get her appearance there canceled. Thankfully, it wasn’t.

Ultimately, radical Islam manifests itself in more ways than one—and its attack on female critics to silence the discussion on how the religion treats women is an example. Universities that purport to stand for free speech, intellectual debate, and open discourse should not tolerate it; especially universities filled with feminists who supposedly stand for equal rights for women.