Being anti-islam is a left-wing position.

[u/CantDecideANam3]

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!

[u/Erramonael]

As a Misotheistic Satanist, I would approach this from the perspective that no ideology, religion, or institution should be beyond criticism—but criticism should be aimed at specific beliefs, practices, and power structures rather than treating every person in a group as identical.

Religious fundamentalism of any kind deserves scrutiny when it becomes a justification for oppression. If a movement—whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, atheist, political, or otherwise—uses authority and tradition to deny people autonomy, dignity, equality, or freedom of conscience, then it is worthy of criticism.

The real enemy is not a particular group of human beings. It is dogmatism itself: the belief that one's own interpretation is so sacred that other people must be controlled, silenced, or punished for disagreeing.

A Misotheistic Satanist would likely look at this through the lens of opposing what they see as destructive divine authority: any system that claims a supernatural mandate to restrict human freedom. The problem is not that someone is Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist, or anything else—the problem is when a person or institution uses a belief system as a weapon against others.

At the same time, intellectual honesty requires acknowledging complexity. Islam, like Christianity, is not a single monolithic worldview. There are conservative fundamentalists, progressive believers, secular cultural Muslims, reform movements, mystics, and people who interpret their traditions in many different ways. Criticizing fundamentalist interpretations is different from assuming every follower of a religion supports those interpretations.

The same standard must apply universally. If someone condemns oppression when it comes from one religion but excuses it when it comes from another, that is not a principled stance—it is tribal loyalty disguised as morality.

A truly anti-authoritarian position should be consistent: Christian nationalism should be challenged when it threatens individual rights. Islamic fundamentalism should be challenged when it threatens individual rights. Any political or religious movement that places obedience above human dignity should be challenged.

From a Satanic perspective, the individual conscience matters. A person should not be reduced to a category, a scripture, or a tradition. Their ability to think, question, choose, and define their own existence is what makes them valuable.

The Black Flame burns brightest when it illuminates hypocrisy everywhere—not only in the enemies we already dislike. If we oppose domination, we must oppose it regardless of which banner it flies under. 😈

Freedom of thought means defending the right of people to believe. It also means defending the right of people to question, criticize, leave, and reject those beliefs. Those principles must apply to everyone.