The British left, writes Maajid Nawaz, has grown infatuated with radical Islam, despite the many ways in which it is at odds with professed leftist beliefs:
[F]or those whom I have come to call Europe’s regressive left, how could Islamist tyranny—such as burying women neck deep in the ground and stoning them to death—possibly be anything other than an authentic expression of Muslim rage at Western colonial hegemony? For don’t you know Muslims are angry? So angry, in fact, that they wish to enslave indigenous Yazidi women for sex, throw Syrian gays off tall buildings, and burn people alive? All because of . . . Israel.
For Europe’s regressive left—which is fast penetrating U.S. circles, too—Muslims are not expected to be civilized. And Muslim upstarts who dare to challenge this theocratic fascism are nothing but an inconvenience to an uncannily Weimar-like populism that screams simplistically: it is all the West’s fault.
It is my fellow Muslims who suffer most from this patronizing, self-pity-inspiring mollycoddling. And just as American Muslims, with some reason, fear becoming targeted by right-wing anti-Muslim prejudice, British Muslims are being spoon-fed regressive-left sedatives, encouraging a perpetual state of victimhood in order to score their petty ideological points against “the West.”
Read more on Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/08/the-british-left-s-hypocritical-embrace-of-islamism.html