We really need to talk about Mehdi Hasan's latest video for the Intercept.
In the clip titled, Caliph Donald Trump and the Rise of the Christian Taliban, broadcaster and journalist Hasan spends nearly four minutes warning his viewers about the "Christian Taliban", or the "Bible-thumping fundamentalists who are bent on theocratising the US government."
Using Islamic terminology, Hasan raises the alarm about the policies of the Christian right. For instance, he argues that they want "sharia law", of the "Biblical variety", and then goes on to speak of the multiple "mullahs" in the Trump administration, ending with "Caliph Trump" himself. In the video, Hasan also compares the use of "To God be the Glory" by the Christian right to intervene in the secular legal system to the quintessential angry Muslim screaming "Allahu Akbar".
Hasan is not the first person to invoke Islam when speaking of extremism within other religions. He is just part of a growing group of liberals and leftists who think it's trendy to use Islam and Muslims as a prop against religious extremism around the world, and especially in the United States.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/islam-talk-christian-fundamentalism-180625083426106.html