Islamophobia (synonymous with anti-Muslim racism) is a critical theory on the effects of systemic power structures on Muslims. In English-speaking countries, this theory is often disseminated under the term “Islamophobia”.285
In its simplest form, the Critical Race Theory (CRT) originating from the USA is transferred to Islam and non-Muslim Western society. Muslims take on the role of BIPOCs. This simple role swap is reflected in official reports: the report of the “Independent Expert Group on Islamophobia” is formulated from a “racism-critical perspective and against the background of a specific conception of society based on the principles of plurality, recognition, participation, equity, and social justice”. 286
The definition of Islamophobia used reads as follows:
“Islamophobia (also: anti-Muslim racism) denotes the attribution of blanket, largely unchangeable, backward, and threatening characteristics to Muslims and people perceived as Muslim. This consciously or unconsciously constructs ‘foreignness’ or even hostility. This leads to multifaceted societal processes of exclusion and discrimination that occur discursively, individually, institutionally, or structurally and can extend to the use of violence.” 287
The experts of the German government define Islamophobia as a carte blanche for Muslims: any report about threatening Muslims is deconstructed as “Islamophobic”. From this definition, it can be inferred that there is no Islamist danger and no violent Muslims. Consequently, Muslims are ideal people who possess only harmless characteristics. All negative characteristics are external attributions by racists who construct a non-existent hostility through invented discourses (see Othering).
In this view, it is claimed that anyone who reports in negative terms about certain Muslims or certain phenomena of Islam would, through negative descriptions, legitimise “societal processes of exclusion and discrimination” up to the use of violence. Islamophobia thus describes not unjustified discrimination but encompasses all negative descriptions of Islam or Muslims. As soon as discourses are shaped by negative headlines, this is evidence of racism. According to this definition, German society is portrayed as predominantly Islamophobic.288
It is easy to see through what the post-migrant activists intend with their definition of Islamophobia: all citizens are to agree to the illusion of a harmonious multicultural utopia, no matter what problems exist in living together with Muslims. All problems are blamed on the majority society as proof of its alleged Islamophobia. At the same time, the post-migrant agenda is advanced, through which a gradually Islamism-friendly quota society is to be established.289 In an increasingly Islamism-influenced society, Kafkaesque narratives about hate speech, marginalisation, integration, Islam, and participation are used that frame criticism as discriminatory. Fundamentalism and Islamism are glorified as legitimate forms of identity politics.290
The phenomenon of woke partisanship for Islamists is widespread in all Western countries. In France, the term “Islamogauchism/Islamo-leftism” has become established for the broad alliances between Islamists and woke activists. There, Islamo-left activists threaten scholars with accusations of racism because they warn of the dangers of Islamism.291