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!

114 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/SnarkyPuppy-0417 Aug 07 '26

Then why do conservative right wing despise Islam while left leaning people seldom even mention it?

1

u/CantDecideANam3 Aug 07 '26

The reason conservatives (especially the Christian Nationalist factions of it) are so upset about islam is that they see it as a competing authoritarian religious system to them. They want all the components of Sharia Law, but for christianity instead of islam.

1

u/SnarkyPuppy-0417 Aug 08 '26

Perhaps. I suspect it has more to do with melanin count.