ISLAM

While Islam is actually a worldview with over 2 billion followers, in the woke discourse it is regarded as a marginalised identity.²²⁴ Therefore, there is little criticism of Islam, although most Muslims show little understanding for queer-feminist societal ideas. Criticism of Islam is considered populist; warnings are frequently issued about anti-Muslim racism towards Muslims (see Islamophobia). Even for violent forms of Islam (e.g., Hezbollah, IS, Hamas), understanding is shown.

Anyone who estimates radical Islam unvarnished as a danger and does not locate the cause primarily in Islamophobic discrimination is discredited as an anti-Muslim Islamophobe. The roots of Islamic fanaticism and Islamic antisemitism, which are anchored independently of Western influences in certain Islamic theological traditions, are just as concealed as the situation of minorities in majority-Islamic countries.²²⁵ For the identity-political alliances between Islamists and woke activists, the term “Islamogauchism” (Islamo-leftism) has become established in France, where left-wing activists sanction any criticism of Islam with accusations of racism.²²⁶

In Germany too, such Islamo-left alliances with Islamic associations are sought in the context of the post-migrant society transformation. Such an agenda was proclaimed by DITIB together with prominent representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in the so-called “Cologne Declaration”: with ciphers of diversity, anti-racism, integration, and participation, the influence of DITIB is justified here.²²⁷ In this sense, the Avicenna Network also operates, which was founded by the Federal Government in 2012 as the official scholarship organisation for Muslim academics. Trained in the rhetoric of Critical Race Theory CRT, activists there market their sharia-close politics as anti-racism.²²⁸ Political backing for the influential Islamic activists is also provided by the so-called “Expert Circle on Islamophobia”: in the fight against right-wing extremism, the government is to combat an allegedly widespread “Islamophobia” by controlling societal discourses on Islam (see Hate Speech).²²⁹