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Islamo-leftism
Islamo-leftism is a neologism designating a supposed proximity and laxity of certain left-wing ideologies, personalities or parties towards political Islam, or even Islamism. Composed of the prefix "Islamo-" and the noun "leftism", it was created by Pierre-André Taguieff in 2002, before being subsequently taken up by various media, intellectual, academic or political personalities. The relevance of the term is contested in particular by its instrumentalization and its stigmatizing aspect similar to "Judeo-Bolshevism".
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 to Pierre-Andre Taguieff's 2002 book entitled New Judeophobia. Taguieff 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'. Interviewed in 2016 by Liberation journalists Sonya Faure and Frantz Durupt, Taguieff was uncertain whether he coined it or had heard it used, and points out that the phrases "Islamo-progressives" and, in the 1980s, "Palestino-progressives" were used as self-descriptions by the French left. It is a neologism applied by individuals to the political alliance between leftists and Islamists.
According to Alain Badiou and Éric Hazan, Islamo-leftists was coined by French police for reasons of simple utility. 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.
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, 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. 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.
A similar term, "Islamo-Marxists" was used by the regime of the Shah of Iran in 1978, which claimed that an alliance supposedly existed between the network of exiled cleric Ruhollah Khomeini and the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran. Most notoriously, the Shah's regime had initially blamed Islamic Marxists for the December 1978 Cinema Rex Fire in Tehran, one of the causes of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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.
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.
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.
Islamo-leftism
Islamo-leftism is a neologism designating a supposed proximity and laxity of certain left-wing ideologies, personalities or parties towards political Islam, or even Islamism. Composed of the prefix "Islamo-" and the noun "leftism", it was created by Pierre-André Taguieff in 2002, before being subsequently taken up by various media, intellectual, academic or political personalities. The relevance of the term is contested in particular by its instrumentalization and its stigmatizing aspect similar to "Judeo-Bolshevism".
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 to Pierre-Andre Taguieff's 2002 book entitled New Judeophobia. Taguieff 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'. Interviewed in 2016 by Liberation journalists Sonya Faure and Frantz Durupt, Taguieff was uncertain whether he coined it or had heard it used, and points out that the phrases "Islamo-progressives" and, in the 1980s, "Palestino-progressives" were used as self-descriptions by the French left. It is a neologism applied by individuals to the political alliance between leftists and Islamists.
According to Alain Badiou and Éric Hazan, Islamo-leftists was coined by French police for reasons of simple utility. 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.
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, 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. 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.
A similar term, "Islamo-Marxists" was used by the regime of the Shah of Iran in 1978, which claimed that an alliance supposedly existed between the network of exiled cleric Ruhollah Khomeini and the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran. Most notoriously, the Shah's regime had initially blamed Islamic Marxists for the December 1978 Cinema Rex Fire in Tehran, one of the causes of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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.
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.
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.