I cannot be the only one frustrated at seeing this article again and again and finding within it no definition of the term "Islamo-leftism" whatsoever.
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1362555180760395780
The closest it comes is, "a controversial term embraced by some of Mr. Macron’s leading ministers to accuse left-leaning intellectuals of justifying Islamism and even terrorism" which tells you how it's being used but not what it supposedly is.
This has become the go-to rhetorical strategy on the right, where cynically lumping multiple supposed "enemy" groups into an imaginary ideological movement without ever defining it ("radical leftist immigrant communist BLM antifa terrorists") somehow escapes media scrutiny.
Obviously this has a long history on the authoritarian right (see: Judeo-Bolshevism), so it's particularly disquieting to see the media unable do much beyond accepting this nonsense at face value, esp in the face of renewed right-wing attacks on academic and religious freedom.
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