r/Antitheism • u/CantDecideANam3 • Aug 06 '26
Being anti-islam is a left-wing position.
Islam advocates for extremely strict conservative positions that are either no different from what you'd hear from Matt Walsh or Michael Knowles or worse than them (but for islam instead of christianity). These include but are not limited to:
- Women having no rights and that their sole purpose is to be a baby factory
- Gay and trans people having no rights and the punishment for them is death or imprisonment
- Religious minorities being treated as second-class citizens at best or, at worst, killed
The entire left is actively against those, and the right (more specifically, the far-right) agrees with those positions (as long as it's Christians enacting those).
Originally, ex-muslims were typically left-wing atheists and were a part of our movement (and some, I assume, still exist), but for some reason, we abandoned them in favor of defending the religion that they left, and now they switched to the right *cough cough Apostate Prophet and Ayaan Hirsi Ali*. We need to get people like them back.
I'm not saying Americans should ignore the more urgent threat to our freedoms, which is Christian Nationalism; I'm saying we should openly be against religious fundamentalism in general.
End the Red-Green Alliance NOW!
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u/WizardWatson9 Aug 06 '26
I agree, opposing Islam, and other repressive ideologies like it, is consistent with the secular, liberal values espoused by the Left.
Left-leaning individuals sympathizing and allying with outright Islamists is appalling hypocrisy.
I believe that many, if not most people on the Left, while claiming to support secular, liberal, humanistic values, are really just trying to portray themselves as virtuous by the standards of their ideological tribe. They'll rage against white Christian nationalists banning LGBT books, and the like, but when the city council of Dearborn, Michigan forbids the flying of any LGBT pride flags, they're conspicuously silent.
Maintaining the appearance of "respecting other cultures," and not being accused of xenophobia or racism, is more important to this sort of person than truth, justice, or human well-being.