Insight into Some Islamism Foundations
Insight into Some Islamism Foundations

Summary/Abstract: One of the most significant social and political facts of our time is the inexhaustible rise of hatred toward Islam. The accumulation of phenomena bearing witness toward this hatred, which I would call Islamophobia, is so abundant that it would be fastidious to enumerate them. Also, it would be a kind of inversion to ask Muslims to prove by such enumeration the multiple humiliations they have to suffer in western societies and in the so-called Muslim states. In most Western societies, Islamophobic political movements grow and receive a legitimate place within the political sphere. They emphasize the idea that there is a radical and substantial opposition between Islam and (mostly European) Western societies. In France, there is no political movement that hasn’t been compromised, at one time or another, with racism toward Arabs, which tends actually to turn exclusively into Islamophobia, even among those who claim to be against such sentiments. In some ways the movements that claim most to be against racism have done much to produce or sustain the very same, like many parties of the left. For instance, the recent support from most of the leaders of the French socialist party for Laurent Gbagbo, president of Ivory Coast, is not without Islamophobic subtexts, as Gbagbo is struggling against Muslims from the North of his country and is surrounded by protestant fundamentalist advisors.[...]

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