{"id":988,"date":"2008-01-22T13:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/01\/22\/das-dumme-wort-islamofaschismus_988"},"modified":"2008-01-22T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:52:46","slug":"das-dumme-wort-islamofaschismus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/01\/22\/das-dumme-wort-islamofaschismus_988","title":{"rendered":"Das dumme Wort „Islamofaschismus“"},"content":{"rendered":"

Der streitbare Publizist James Carroll – einst war er katholischer Priester – wendet sich im Boston Globe<\/a> gegen die im amerikanischen Wahlkampf grassierende Rede vom „Islamofaschismus“, und er hat Recht, finde ich:<\/p>\n

„The pairing of ‚Islam‘ and ‚fascism‘ has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism were linked to Catholicism – indirectly under Benito Mussolini in Italy, explicitly under Francisco Franco in Spain. Protestant and Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland, both deserving the label ‚fascist‘, never had their religions prefixed to that word. Nor have Hindu extremists in India, nor Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

\tIn contrast to the way militant zealotries of other religions have been perceived, there is a broad conviction, especially among many conservative American Christians, that the inner logic of Islam and fascism go together. Political candidates appeal to those Christians by defining the ambition of Islamofascists in language that makes prior threats from, say, Hitler or Stalin seem benign. The point is that there is a deep religious prejudice at work, and when politicians adopt its code, they make it worse.<\/p>\n

\tThe Democrats gain little by shaping their rhetoric to appeal to the Republicans‘ conservative religious base, but a readiness to denigrate Islam shows up on their side, too. In last week’s debate, moderator Brian Williams put to Barack Obama a question about Internet rumors that claim he is a Muslim. The tone of the question suggested that Obama was being accused of something heinous. He replied with a simple affirmation that he is a Christian. He did not then ask, „And what would be wrong if I were a Muslim?“ Had he done so, it seems clear, he would have cost himself votes in the present climate.<\/p>\n

\tThe present climate is my subject. In recent years, the public realm has been invaded by a certain kind of narrow Christian enthusiasm, made up partly of triumphalistic self-aggrandizement (exclusive salvation), and partly of the impulse to denigrate other religions, especially Islam. This phenomenon has been centered in, but not limited to, evangelical fundamentalism. The United States cannot have a constructive foreign policy in religiously enflamed regions like the Middle East, northern Africa or South Asia if the American presence in such conflicts is itself religiously enflaming.<\/p>\n

\tThus, how could the United States advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process if its government upholds, however implicitly, the Christian Zionist dream of a God-sponsored Jewish state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean? Where is the two-state solution then? How, for that matter, is the traditional American commitment to the Jewishness of Israel advanced if the Christian Zionist vision of ultimate Jewish conversion to Jesus is achieved?<\/p>\n

\tThe issue is larger. The intellectual and moral paralysis of all major candidates from both parties on the subject of the war in Iraq is mainly a result of their religion-sponsored imprisonment in the Islamofascism paradigm, whether they use the word or not. By emphasizing that the goal of Muslim terrorists is to wage what John McCain calls a „transcendent“ war against „us,“ candidates miss the most important fact about the conflicts in Iraq and throughout the Muslim world – that militant Muslim zealots are primarily at war with their own people, most of whom they regard as decadent apostates.“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Der streitbare Publizist James Carroll – einst war er katholischer Priester – wendet sich im Boston Globe gegen die im amerikanischen Wahlkampf grassierende Rede vom „Islamofaschismus“, und er hat Recht, finde ich: „The pairing of ‚Islam‘ and ‚fascism‘ has no parallel in characterizations of extremisms tied to other religions, although the defining movements of fascism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debatte","category-die-freunde-und-die-feinde-des-islams"],"yoast_head":"\nDas dumme Wort "Islamofaschismus" - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/01\/22\/das-dumme-wort-islamofaschismus_988\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Das dumme Wort "Islamofaschismus" - 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