{"id":7053,"date":"2020-07-05T19:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:14:22","slug":"the-left-movements-and-the-islamophobia-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/2020\/07\/05\/the-left-movements-and-the-islamophobia-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Left movements and the issue of Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Gil-Benumeya.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIslamophobia is one central topic in European far-right discourses. But it cannot be attributed just to them: part of the left movements have argued against Islam presence, alleging certain arguments which compose the new fascisms and post-fascisms vade mecums\u201d, writes the author. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story about Islamophobia is going to finish\u201d: was a commentary done by a person who defined himself as ex-Muslim and left-supporter, launched in a social network as a warning to Muslims and anti-racists. The islamophobia can be understood as a culturalist racism mode against Muslims or people considered as such, without regarding their real religious practice or its subjective importance. As all different types of racism, islamophobia interweaves with social othering and inferiorization dynamics, which lay on class, race and gender basis. Furthermore, its effectivity is sustained on apparent common sense arguments, that actually create illusionary realities and present themselves as \u201crespectable\u201d as antisemitism was long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Despite islamophobia is not restricted just to religious discrimination, it mustn\u2019t be separated from it. The Islamophobia\u2019s anti-Islam element is racist by itself: following the know-power colonial orientalist tendencies, Islam is presented as a determinant and unchangeable essence which permanently conditions Muslims\u2019 life. In this line, they defend exclusion and regulatory mechanisms towards the individuals who worship this religion.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6610\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1-620x415.jpg 620w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1-192x128.jpg 192w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ilustracion-musulmanas-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Islamophobia is one of the main European far-right movements\u2019 discourse topics. But it cannot be attributed just to them. Part of left movements have argued against Islam presence, alleging certain arguments which compose the new fascisms and posfascisms vade mecums: Islam should be excluded due to it is reactionary, dangerous, it oppress women, hate homosexual, and because it is a religion, and religion is the opium of the masses.<\/p>\n<h3>Ex-Muslims and Islamophobia<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>When left have lost part of their references and social relevance, they have resorted to \u201cEnlightened islamophobia\u201d as a vague and sterile avant-garde, through which they pretend to define who are the legitimate political subjects and how they should articulate their resistances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to this rationality, due to Islam is not something inherent to humans, such as skin colour or ethnic origin, islamophobia isn\u2019t considered as racism. Being Muslim is a religious identity, and as such, it is a choice that can (and should) be given up. This idea is reinforced by the existence of \u201cex-Muslims\u201d that present themselves as examples of people who have \u201covercome Islam\u201d, consequently legitimising these Islamophobic discourses. Following this path, they understand islamophobia as a story: in order to use white left\u2019s guilt complex, the Islamists created a subterfuge that would avert critics to Islam, and furthermore, they took advantage of the neoliberal \u201ccultural wars\u201d trap for pushing the left aside from its principles. At this point, and bearing in mind the real reasons behind labour divisions, resource sharing and the racialisation regimes that working class is suffering in Europe, we can appreciate how \u201cclass\u201d ideals are used under totemic purposes rather than as effective analysis categories.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7027\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7027\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7027\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-620x349.png 620w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3-940x529.png 940w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Zineb_El_Rhazoui_3.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zineb El Rahoui, a french moroccan activist against Islam.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Progressive&#8217; islamophobia dodges accusations by avoiding to frontally attack Muslims. They present them as societies and family environments\u2019 passive victims, and as subjects manipulated by reactionary Islamic political movements, which are called \u201cislamofascists\u201d. Furthermore, part of the left that doesn\u2019t participate in this types of discrimination are portrayed as Islamist conspiracy dummies, who blindly believe in the \u201cdiversity trap\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Progressive islamophobia dodges accusations by avoiding to frontally attack Muslims. They present them as societies and family environments\u2019 passive victims<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When constructing this demonizing discourse, the practices which doesn\u2019t fit in it are featured as unauthentic, decaffeinated, westernised, or as traps used to disguise the Islamist cause. Besides, the Muslim individuals that confront these characterisations are despised, citing their alleged \u201calienation\u201d or interest in perpetuate \u201coppression\u201d. The unique profiles which are generally accepted are the ones who publicly reject Islam, so called \u201ccleared Muslims\u201d, and accept the Islamophobe discourse.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8216;Progressive&#8217; Islamophobia<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The idea of progress becomes the main discursive mechanism used by progressive Islamophobia. Muslims are presented as anachronistic: they live in another epoch, they haven\u2019t reach civilisation levels, and their presence (especially when they attempt to exert their citizenship) threaten to bring us to \u201cold times\u201d: fascism, clericalism, patriarchy, sexual repression.<\/p>\n<p>Religious practice constitutes the essential representation of anachronism: Is there any greater sign of backwardness than not being able to overcome religion or to relegate it to the private sphere, \u201cas we have done\u201d? As Islam has \u201cimmigrated\u201d to our lands (despite history can prove otherwise), it isn\u2019t conceived as a cultural tradition, contrary to what it happens to Christian practices. Hence, it highlights for its visibility and is perceived as a religious excess. These discourses forget that, originally, laicism was a way to protect freedom of belief, rather than a tool for destroying it.<\/p>\n<p>While nationalist and nativist islamophobia sees Islam presence as a threat to nation or imagined community identity, progressive islamophobia believes that what is threatened is the imagined <em>moral community<\/em>: a society that, allegedly, has conquered by its own the principles of liberty, equality and welfare, and that should defend them in front of the Islam anachronistic monster.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Non &#8216;enlightened&#8217; Muslims<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the worst case, Islam is considered incompatible <em>per se <\/em>with social conquests, and in the best, it is assured that Muslims haven\u2019t known yet Enlightenment, gender equality or sexual freedom. Thus, it exists an Islam, considered tolerable, moderate, with \u201cenlightenment grains\u201d, that would serve as a transitive point towards a reality without Islam.\u00a0 Following this latter logic, unfortunately, there are left party sectors who consider themselves anti-racist and even promote alliances with Islamic organisations. Nevertheless, all of them contemplate that in a future Muslims should all abandon their beliefs, on the basis that faith and social transformation are incompatible.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/islam-drapeautricolore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5231\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/islam-drapeautricolore-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/islam-drapeautricolore-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/islam-drapeautricolore-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/islam-drapeautricolore.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When left have lost part of their references and social relevance, they have resorted to Enlightened islamophobia, as a vague and sterile avant-garde, through which they pretend to define who are the legitimate political subjects and how they should articulate their resistances. This is a left, that when it has attempted to snatch spaces from the far-right and post-fascisms, has ended losing itself and creating disturbing results.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamarea.com\/2020\/06\/23\/la-izquierda-y-el-cuento-de-la-islamofobia\/\"> lamarea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Translation: Toni Sastre &#8211; FUNCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Gil-Benumeya. \u201cIslamophobia is one central topic in European far-right discourses. But it cannot be attributed just to them: part of the left movements have argued against Islam presence, alleging certain arguments which compose the new fascisms and post-fascisms vade mecums\u201d, writes the author. \u201cThe story about Islamophobia is going to finish\u201d: was a commentary done by a person who defined himself as ex-Muslim and left-supporter, launched in a social network as a warning to Muslims and anti-racists. The islamophobia can be understood as a culturalist racism mode against Muslims or people considered as such, without regarding their real religious practice or its subjective importance. As all different types of racism, islamophobia interweaves with social othering and inferiorization dynamics, which lay on class, race and gender basis. Furthermore, its effectivity is sustained on apparent common sense arguments, that actually create illusionary realities and present themselves as \u201crespectable\u201d as antisemitism was long time ago. Despite islamophobia is not restricted just to religious discrimination, it mustn\u2019t be separated from it. The Islamophobia\u2019s anti-Islam element is racist by itself: following the know-power colonial orientalist tendencies, Islam is presented as a determinant and unchangeable essence which permanently conditions Muslims\u2019 life. 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