nessrriin & allat
I think the various dawah peddlers, Muslim Brotherhood, Jamat-e-Islami, Tabligi Jamaati and other ideological groups who do actively assert their desire and prosletysing impulse to dominate and convert societies to Islam are equally to blame as right-wingers who basically just pick up and run with the torch that they wave around all over the place. There is a starting point to this that is rooted not just in good old right-wing nativist, xenophobic sentiment, and that is the actual beliefs and stated aims of the lunatics who not only talk about Islamicising non Islamic societies, but who say that they wish to work towards it. They are primarily culpable for feeding this narrative, and they have no self awareness about it at all. The documentary about the Ikhwan in Europe that Iraqi Atheist posted is just one example.
I agree with you that these things pander to right wing chauvinism that is hostile to minorities anyway, but I reckon that the Muslim ideologues and groups who do peddle this nonsense shouldn't be ignored, they should be confronted about it rigorously too.
Yeah, that's why I think our fight is with far-right bigotry/xenophobia/fascism itself, no matter where it comes from. In fact far right wingers among Islamists and among anti-Islam groups (like BNP'ers and Bible Belt fanatics in the U.S. etc.) benefit from each other's bigotry because it increases the fears of people who think they are being targeted by the other side and thus fattens the pockets of those who are banking on people's fears.
There's no reason to play into their false binaries - that you're either a islamist or a zionist, or either you hate white people or you hate brown people. These false binaries only benefit those who are the leaders and profiteers of
both kinds of far-right-wing/fascist way of thinking. Yes, let's openly and loudly condemn Islam's far-right-wing, xenophobic bigotry,
AND let's openly and loudly condemn every other group's/society's far-right-wing, xenophobic bigotry. It's the only way to fight the real monsters that come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, colours, races:
fascism,
totalitarianism and plain old
bigotry. It's not like we haven't seen these monsters before and it's not like any one race or group of people have a monopoly on them.
And we must also remember that in order to fight monsters, we shouldn't become monsters ourselves. Because if we do, we will not have gained anything by the fight, and we will then be the monsters we thought we were fighting.
Topic: World Domination