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Islamo-leftism

September 02, 2023

This article is about a neologism. For left-leaning views among Muslims, see Islamic socialism or Liberalism and progressivism within Islam.

Islamo-leftism (Persian: چپ اسلامی; French: islamo(-)gauchisme, Spanish: Islamo-izquierdismo),[1] adjectivally Islamo-leftist (French: islamo(-)gauchiste),[2] is a neologism applied to the alleged political alliance between leftists and Islamists.

History of term Edit

Origins Edit

Essays in Libération and France 24 on the history of this term do not claim to find the definitive origin of this term, rather, both publications trace the term as far back as a 2002 use in New Judeophobia, a book by Pierre-André Taguieff, historian of ideas, who describes Islamo-fascism as a type of anti-Zionism popular among "the new third-worldist, neo-communist and neo-leftist configuration, better known as the 'anti-globalization movement'".[3][4] Interviewed in 2016 by Liberation journalists Sonya Faure and Frantz Durupt, Taguieff is not certain whether he coined it or had heard it used, but he points out that the phrases Islamo-progressives and in the 1980s Palestino-progressives were used as self-descriptions by the French left.[3]

According to Alain Badiou and Éric Hazan, Islamo-leftists was coined by French police for reasons of simple utility.[5] Al Jazeera claims that the term Islamo-leftism was coined by Marine Le Pen, who uses it "to describe what she considers an unhealthy alliance between "Islamist fanatics" and the French Left".[6]

French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo-leftism was "chiefly" conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Understanding the term as "the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism,"[7] Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam's potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. According to Bruckner, leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a "battering-ram" to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women's rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Bruckner contends that Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the "totalitarian theocracy" of Islamist government.[7][8] The Libération essay on the origins of the term said that several commentators linked the origins of the term to former SWP Central Committee member Chris Harman and to the foundation of the Respect Party and George Galloway.[3]

Growth of the term Edit

The term first began entering mainstream discourse in France in the debate over the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools in 2003 and 2004. Le Monde used the term for the first time in print in September 2004.[9]

According to research led by David Chavalarias of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the term was used in 0,032% of Twitter posts about French politics between 2017 and 2020, with a significant spike beginning in 2019, after ministers in the Castex government began using the term in official statements. The research found that term was most often used in "hostilities between political communities" and was often associated with terms such as "traitor," "enemy of the Republic," and "shame." The research further found that the term was particularly aimed against left-wing groups in France and was most often used by accounts associated with the far-right and by accounts that had been suspended by Twitter.[10]

2021 proposed Vidal inquiry Edit

In February 2021, French Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal stated that "Islamo-leftism" was "plaguing society" and announced that she would formally ask the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) to lead an inquiry to examine whether it and post-colonialism were interfering with academic research in France.[11]

Vidal's announcement was met with significant controversy. The Conférence des présidents d'université called the term a "pseudo-notion" lacking a rigorous definition and stated it was shocked at "the launch of another sterile debate."[12] Over 600 academic professors and researchers signed an open letter in Le Monde denouncing the inquiry, saying that Vidal was "defaming a profession and a community which, as Minister for Higher Education, she is supposed to be protecting" and saying that inquiry was reminiscent of the anti-gender movement and other attempts to suppress research into colonialism and racism, such as in Poland, Hungary, and Brazil.[13] In an editorial, Le Monde accused the government of attacking academic freedom and of trying to create a distraction from its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[14] The CNRS itself said that the concept "does not correspond to any scientific reality" and denounced "those would use it to attack academic freedom."[15]

Within the French cabinet, opinions were divided, with government spokesperson Gabriel Attal saying that "if the phenomenon exists, it's extremely marginal," and with Democratic Movement leader and former Minister of National Education François Bayrou saying that "in the universities that I know, that's not what's happening."[16] On the other hand, Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer said that it was an "undoubtable social fact" and Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said that it would "disregarding the truth to pretend that universities, public services, and associations haven't been affected by Islamism backed by the left."[17] Five days after making the announcement, Vidal said that "of course, the term doesn't have a scientific definition, but it corresponds to what a lot of our fellow citizens are feeling and to a certain number of facts," and defended the inquiry, saying that "we need to take stock of the situation in our country."[18]

"Islamo-leftism" in Iran Edit

Shireen Hunter credits "Islamo-leftist" Mahmoud Taleghani's reinterpretation of Islam in the light of Marxist theory in the 1970s with inspiring the group Mujahaedin-e-Khalq. The result she says was the radicalization of Islamic discourse and the emergence of what she describes as a 'leftist islam'.[19] According to Olivier Roy, the three major Iranian political groups—leftist, Islamist and Islamo-leftist—active in the 1970s had revolutionary rather than liberal democratic ideologies.[20]

Definitions Edit

Political scientist Maurice Fraser regards Islamo-leftism as part of a "striking and recent abdication of the Enlightenment project of human rights, freedom, secularism, science and progress" on the part of the political left, particularly among the anti-globalization activists of the New Left.[21]

Bernard-Henri Lévy has described "Islamo-leftism" as "this grand new alliance between the reds and the new browns, of the axis which runs from Le Monde diplomatique to the death squads"[22] and as a sort of "anti-American religion".[23] According to Mark Silinsky of the United States Army War College, Islamo-leftism is alliance of Islamists and leftists in opposition to Western values that can also be also referred to as the "red-green axis".[24] Silinsky characterizes the black-green alliance between Black Lives Matter and the Council on American–Islamic Relations as an example of Islamo-leftism.[24] Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld describes Islamo Leftism as "the hope, entertained by a revolutionary fringe, of seeing Islam become the spearhead of a new insurrection, engaged in a 'Holy War against global capitalism".[25]

According to Robert S. Wistrich, "[a] poisonous anti-Jewish legacy can be found in Marx, Fourier, and Proudhon, extending through the orthodox Communists and "non-conformist" Trotskyists to the Islamo-Leftist hybrids of today who [are allied with] the Islamist anti-Semites of Hamas".[26]

Use in fiction Edit

In his 2015 novel, Submission, Michel Houellebecq has Robert Rediger, the fictional character who is a convert to Islam and university professor turned politician, describe Islamo-leftism as "a desperate attempt by moldering, putrefying, brain dead Marxists to hoist themselves out of the dustbin of history by latching onto the coattails of Islam".[27][28]

Criticism of the term Edit

Writing for the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, human rights lawyer Yasser Louati called the term "a testimony to how the center of gravity of French politics has shifted toward the far-right" and that the "controversy around Islamo-leftism and the subsequent witch hunt express another not so admissible opinion: that universities are there to legitimize the status quo, not to question it."[29] Sébastien Ledoux of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University has said that the term has been "hijacked by right-wing journalists and intellectuals to denounce a part of the left that, in their eyes, had fallen into the trap of multiculturalism by questioning national unity and national values."[30] Political sociologist Audrey Célistine of the University of Lille has called the term "a form of McCarthyism."[31]

University College London professor of French politics Philippe Marlière compared the term to the antisemitic canard Jewish Bolshevism, stating that "no one has ever been able to define exactly what an 'islamo-leftist' is" and that research on intersectionality was "unpalatable to the government which upholds the view that there is no structural sexism and racism in France, or nothing to discuss about France's colonial past."[32] Anthropologist Didier Fassin has said that use of the term "revealed an improbable convergence between Macron’s En Marche and Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, on the one hand, and a reactionary segment of France’s intellectual world on the other" and that "a remarkable feature of this movement is its disregard for the international literature nourishing these new ideas. Instead of understanding them, it appears more interested in caricaturing them."[33]

French sociologist and philosopher Raphael Liogier has said that "left-wing intellectuals have long deserted this fascination [of alliances with Islamist]" and that "paradoxically, it is at the moment when this doesn't fascinate anyone on the left, in academia or elsewhere that they are accused of Islamo-leftism. This is suspect, bizarre and incoherent."[34] Reza Zia-Ebrahimi of King’s College London has said that understanding the origins of the concept "is crucial in highlighting the deep resonance of Islamophobia denial with the New Philosophers’ decades-old offensive against the left" and "that the New Philosophers have thrown their weight behind Islamophobia denial is significant in light of the jaw-dropping extent of their air time on radio and television, the sheer number of publications they author, their enormous influence on the French political and media elite and (not to be underestimated) their international standing."[35]

Russell P. Johnson of the University of Chicago Divinity School has said that "as many Americans’ perspectives shifted in the 1990s from seeing communism as the United States’ main antagonist to seeing militant Islamism (and often, by extension, Islam) as the United States’ main antagonist, some people interpreted have Islam on analogy with communism, refusing to acknowledge evidence to the contrary."[36]

See also Edit

References Edit

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  2. ^ Guibert, Philippe (7 October 2015). "Il faut inventer la "politique musulmane" de la France". Slate. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
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Further reading Edit

  • Ackerman, Gary A.; Bale, Jeffrey M. (2012). "The potential for collaboration between Islamists and Western left-wing extremists: A theoretical and empirical introduction". Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. 5 (3): 151–171. doi:10.1080/17467586.2012.745197. ISSN 1746-7586. S2CID 144822372.
  • Bacon, Tricia L. (2013). Strange Bedfellows Or Brothers-in-Arms: Why Terrorist Groups Ally (PhD). Georgetown University. ISBN 9781303603518. ProQuest 1475251620.
  • Benedek, Eran (2007). "Britain's Respect Party: The Leftist-Islamist Alliance and its Attitude Toward Israel". Jewish Political Studies Review. 19 (3): 153–163. JSTOR 25834757.
  • Browers, Michaele L. Political Ideology in the Arab World (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • Clark, Janine A. "The Conditions of Islamist Moderation: Unpacking Cross-Ideological Cooperation in Jordan," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (October 2006), pp. 539–560
  • Evren, Süreyyya (2012). "There Ain't No Black in the Anarchist Flag! Race, Ethnicity and Anarchism". In Kinna, Ruth (ed.). The continuum companion to anarchism. New York: Continuum. pp. 299–314. ISBN 978-1-4411-4270-2. OCLC 799764722.
  • Hughes, Zachary (8 May 2006). "Noam Chomsky's Support for Hezbollah". CAMERA: Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
  • Hussain, Ghaffar (30 September 2008). "An unlikely alliance". The Guardian.
  • Hyde, Dave (February 2003). "Europe's Other Red-Green Alliance". Zeek.
  • Kandil, Hazem (2011). "Islamizing Egypt? Testing the limits of Gramscian counterhegemonic strategies". Theory and Society. 40 (1): 37–62. doi:10.1007/s11186-010-9135-z. ISSN 0304-2421.
  • Karagiannis, Emmanuel; McCauley, Clark (2013). "The Emerging Red-Green Alliance: Where Political Islam Meets the Radical Left". Terrorism and Political Violence. 25 (2): 167–182. doi:10.1080/09546553.2012.755815. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 145484343.
  • Ritchie, Emily (4 April 2017). "Ayaan Hirsi Ali slams protesters who prevented her visit to Australia". The Australian. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  • Schwedler, Jillian, and Janine A. Clark, "Islamist-Leftist Cooperation in the Arab World," ISIM Review, Vol. 18 (2006), pp. 10–11.
  • Steinberg, Gerald M. (6 June 2010). "The War Against Israel". Wall Street Journal.
  • Tzvi, Fleischer (8 June 2006). "The far Left and radical Islamist international alliance". The Australian. p. 11.

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This article is about a neologism For left leaning views among Muslims see Islamic socialism or Liberalism and progressivism within Islam Islamo leftism Persian چپ اسلامی French islamo gauchisme Spanish Islamo izquierdismo 1 adjectivally Islamo leftist French islamo gauchiste 2 is a neologism applied to the alleged political alliance between leftists and Islamists Contents 1 History of term 1 1 Origins 1 2 Growth of the term 1 2 1 2021 proposed Vidal inquiry 1 3 Islamo leftism in Iran 2 Definitions 3 Use in fiction 4 Criticism of the term 5 See also 6 References 7 Further readingHistory of term EditOrigins Edit Essays in Liberation and France 24 on the history of this term do not claim to find the definitive origin of this term rather both publications trace the term as far back as a 2002 use in New Judeophobia a book by Pierre Andre Taguieff historian of ideas who describes Islamo fascism as a type of anti Zionism popular among the new third worldist neo communist and neo leftist configuration better known as the anti globalization movement 3 4 Interviewed in 2016 by Liberation journalists Sonya Faure and Frantz Durupt Taguieff is not certain whether he coined it or had heard it used but he points out that the phrases Islamo progressives and in the 1980s Palestino progressives were used as self descriptions by the French left 3 According to Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan Islamo leftists was coined by French police for reasons of simple utility 5 Al Jazeera claims that the term Islamo leftism was coined by Marine Le Pen who uses it to describe what she considers an unhealthy alliance between Islamist fanatics and the French Left 6 French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo leftism was chiefly conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party SWP Understanding the term as the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism 7 Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam s potential for fomenting societal unrest they promote tactical temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties According to Bruckner leftist adherents of Third Worldism hope to use Islamism as a battering ram to bring about the downfall of free market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights in particular of women s rights as an acceptable trade off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism Bruckner contends that Islamists for their part pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the totalitarian theocracy of Islamist government 7 8 The Liberation essay on the origins of the term said that several commentators linked the origins of the term to former SWP Central Committee member Chris Harman and to the foundation of the Respect Party and George Galloway 3 Growth of the term Edit The term first began entering mainstream discourse in France in the debate over the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools in 2003 and 2004 Le Monde used the term for the first time in print in September 2004 9 According to research led by David Chavalarias of the French National Centre for Scientific Research the term was used in 0 032 of Twitter posts about French politics between 2017 and 2020 with a significant spike beginning in 2019 after ministers in the Castex government began using the term in official statements The research found that term was most often used in hostilities between political communities and was often associated with terms such as traitor enemy of the Republic and shame The research further found that the term was particularly aimed against left wing groups in France and was most often used by accounts associated with the far right and by accounts that had been suspended by Twitter 10 2021 proposed Vidal inquiry Edit In February 2021 French Minister of Higher Education Research and Innovation Frederique Vidal stated that Islamo leftism was plaguing society and announced that she would formally ask the National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS to lead an inquiry to examine whether it and post colonialism were interfering with academic research in France 11 Vidal s announcement was met with significant controversy The Conference des presidents d universite called the term a pseudo notion lacking a rigorous definition and stated it was shocked at the launch of another sterile debate 12 Over 600 academic professors and researchers signed an open letter in Le Monde denouncing the inquiry saying that Vidal was defaming a profession and a community which as Minister for Higher Education she is supposed to be protecting and saying that inquiry was reminiscent of the anti gender movement and other attempts to suppress research into colonialism and racism such as in Poland Hungary and Brazil 13 In an editorial Le Monde accused the government of attacking academic freedom and of trying to create a distraction from its handling of the COVID 19 pandemic in France 14 The CNRS itself said that the concept does not correspond to any scientific reality and denounced those would use it to attack academic freedom 15 Within the French cabinet opinions were divided with government spokesperson Gabriel Attal saying that if the phenomenon exists it s extremely marginal and with Democratic Movement leader and former Minister of National Education Francois Bayrou saying that in the universities that I know that s not what s happening 16 On the other hand Minister of National Education Jean Michel Blanquer said that it was an undoubtable social fact and Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin said that it would disregarding the truth to pretend that universities public services and associations haven t been affected by Islamism backed by the left 17 Five days after making the announcement Vidal said that of course the term doesn t have a scientific definition but it corresponds to what a lot of our fellow citizens are feeling and to a certain number of facts and defended the inquiry saying that we need to take stock of the situation in our country 18 Islamo leftism in Iran Edit Shireen Hunter credits Islamo leftist Mahmoud Taleghani s reinterpretation of Islam in the light of Marxist theory in the 1970s with inspiring the group Mujahaedin e Khalq The result she says was the radicalization of Islamic discourse and the emergence of what she describes as a leftist islam 19 According to Olivier Roy the three major Iranian political groups leftist Islamist and Islamo leftist active in the 1970s had revolutionary rather than liberal democratic ideologies 20 Definitions EditPolitical scientist Maurice Fraser regards Islamo leftism as part of a striking and recent abdication of the Enlightenment project of human rights freedom secularism science and progress on the part of the political left particularly among the anti globalization activists of the New Left 21 Bernard Henri Levy has described Islamo leftism as this grand new alliance between the reds and the new browns of the axis which runs from Le Monde diplomatique to the death squads 22 and as a sort of anti American religion 23 According to Mark Silinsky of the United States Army War College Islamo leftism is alliance of Islamists and leftists in opposition to Western values that can also be also referred to as the red green axis 24 Silinsky characterizes the black green alliance between Black Lives Matter and the Council on American Islamic Relations as an example of Islamo leftism 24 Alvin Hirsch Rosenfeld describes Islamo Leftism as the hope entertained by a revolutionary fringe of seeing Islam become the spearhead of a new insurrection engaged in a Holy War against global capitalism 25 According to Robert S Wistrich a poisonous anti Jewish legacy can be found in Marx Fourier and Proudhon extending through the orthodox Communists and non conformist Trotskyists to the Islamo Leftist hybrids of today who are allied with the Islamist anti Semites of Hamas 26 Use in fiction EditIn his 2015 novel Submission Michel Houellebecq has Robert Rediger the fictional character who is a convert to Islam and university professor turned politician describe Islamo leftism as a desperate attempt by moldering putrefying brain dead Marxists to hoist themselves out of the dustbin of history by latching onto the coattails of Islam 27 28 Criticism of the term EditWriting for the Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs human rights lawyer Yasser Louati called the term a testimony to how the center of gravity of French politics has shifted toward the far right and that the controversy around Islamo leftism and the subsequent witch hunt express another not so admissible opinion that universities are there to legitimize the status quo not to question it 29 Sebastien Ledoux of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University has said that the term has been hijacked by right wing journalists and intellectuals to denounce a part of the left that in their eyes had fallen into the trap of multiculturalism by questioning national unity and national values 30 Political sociologist Audrey Celistine of the University of Lille has called the term a form of McCarthyism 31 University College London professor of French politics Philippe Marliere compared the term to the antisemitic canard Jewish Bolshevism stating that no one has ever been able to define exactly what an islamo leftist is and that research on intersectionality was unpalatable to the government which upholds the view that there is no structural sexism and racism in France or nothing to discuss about France s colonial past 32 Anthropologist Didier Fassin has said that use of the term revealed an improbable convergence between Macron s En Marche and Le Pen s Rassemblement National on the one hand and a reactionary segment of France s intellectual world on the other and that a remarkable feature of this movement is its disregard for the international literature nourishing these new ideas Instead of understanding them it appears more interested in caricaturing them 33 French sociologist and philosopher Raphael Liogier has said that left wing intellectuals have long deserted this fascination of alliances with Islamist and that paradoxically it is at the moment when this doesn t fascinate anyone on the left in academia or elsewhere that they are accused of Islamo leftism This is suspect bizarre and incoherent 34 Reza Zia Ebrahimi of King s College London has said that understanding the origins of the concept is crucial in highlighting the deep resonance of Islamophobia denial with the New Philosophers decades old offensive against the left and that the New Philosophers have thrown their weight behind Islamophobia denial is significant in light of the jaw dropping extent of their air time on radio and television the sheer number of publications they author their enormous influence on the French political and media elite and not to be underestimated their international standing 35 Russell P Johnson of the University of Chicago Divinity School has said that as many Americans perspectives shifted in the 1990s from seeing communism as the United States main antagonist to seeing militant Islamism and often by extension Islam as the United States main antagonist some people interpreted have Islam on analogy with communism refusing to acknowledge evidence to the contrary 36 See also EditJewish Bolshevism Zydokomuna Regressive left Red green brown alliance RESIST electoral list Pseudo secularism Crypto Islam Political religion Victim cardReferences Edit Hermosa Borja 26 January 2017 Finkielkraut contra el neoprogresismo y el islamo izquierdismo El Pais Retrieved 28 March 2017 Guibert Philippe 7 October 2015 Il faut inventer la politique musulmane de la France Slate Retrieved 2 November 2015 a b c Faure Sonya 14 April 2016 Islamo gauchisme aux origines d une expression mediatique Liberation Retrieved 19 March 2017 Qu est ce que cet islamo gauchisme dont le camp Valls accuse Hamon France 24 25 January 2017 Retrieved 28 March 2017 Alain Badiou Eric Hazan 2013 Anti Semitism is Everywhere in France Today Chapter in Reflections On Anti Semitism Verso Books p 41 Ryan Yasmine 6 April 2012 French right focuses on radical Muslims Al Jazeera Retrieved 3 November 2015 a b Bruckner Pascal 2010 The Tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism Princeton University Press p 25 ISBN 978 1400834310 Pascal Julia 22 September 2011 The Tyranny Of Guilt An Essay On Western Masochism By Pascal Bruckner trans by Steven Rendall The Independent Retrieved 2 November 2015 D Ou vient l expression d islamo gauchisme Islamogauchisme Le piege de l Alt right se referme sur la Macronie 21 February 2021 Islamo gauchisme a l universite Vidal lance une enquete des presidents denoncent une polemique sterile 16 February 2021 Islamo gauchisme Stopper la confusion et les polemiques steriles 2021 Islamo gauchisme Nous universitaires et chercheurs demandons avec force la demission de Frederique Vidal Le Monde fr 20 February 2021 Islamo gauchisme Vidal Darmanin jeu dangereux Le Monde fr 19 February 2021 L islamogauchisme n est pas une realite scientifique CNRS 17 February 2021 Bayrou L islamo gauchisme n est pas le premier probleme de L Emmanuel Macron empetre dans le debat sur l islamo gauchisme Le Monde fr 22 February 2021 Islamo gauchisme Frederique Vidal denonce un proces d intention a son egard Le Monde fr 21 February 2021 Hunter Shireen 2010 Iran s Foreign Policy in the Post Soviet Era Resisting the New International Order ABC CLIO p 27 ISBN 978 0313381942 Retrieved 26 March 2017 Olivier Roy chapter in book edited by Larry Diamond Marc F Plattner 2014 Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World Johns Hopkins University Press p 41 ISBN 978 1421414164 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a last1 has generic name help CS1 maint multiple names authors list 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