Getting the global Left to be apologists for Islam is the single biggest coup that Islamists have pulled off in the West. Using their own resources to target them.
Like having lambs carry the swords for their own slaughter. The Left are the #JihadCoolies.
Of course, Hindu "secular Left" in India are equally complicit #JihadCoolies as well.
It is worth recalling what happened to the Iranian Left after they collaborated in the Islamic takeover of Iran. The Leftists leaders were tortured and forced to publicly "confess" on TV.
The Islamic Regime of Iran tortured and forced the Leftists leaders (who'd helped in the "Islamic revolution") to "confess" and recant their ideology publically, because "The regime considered Marxism the main ideological rival of Islam." Marxism was akin to a religious rival.
"Kianuri was an Iranian Leftist, dubbed the 'Communist Ayatollah' ...he had often appeared on television praising the Islamic Republic as the best bulwark against U.S. imperialism."
This communist later recanted on TV...how Marxism was a foreign ideology which betrayed Iranians.
The Islamic Regime had turned on the Left soon after the Revolution, because the Left had started criticizing the regime for their persecution of the Bahai and of women. (note to "feminist" apologists for Islam).
You cannot ride the tiger of Islamism with the hope to "tame" it.
While out of power both Islamists and Communists attack "nationalism" they both become fiercely nationalist when in power. Both China and Iran are hyper-nationalist.
China considers Islam a "mental illness" and Iran executed or imprisoned Marxists after the Islamic Revolution.
Each totalitarian ideology, right-wing Christianity, Islamism and Marxism, knows how to deal with the other.
Plural indigenous societies don't understand the nature of totalitarianisms which seek to erase all others, so are at a loss to deal with them.
Marxism parallels religion was considered a "rival" by the Islamic regime—"Unlike liberalism, nationalism, and monarchism, it challenged religious metaphysics, held out a utopian future, and offered a comprehensive view of the past and the present."
By a combination of 1. Having a home team. There are plenty of Islamic universities in the world, unlike in India where the state destroyed Hindu scholarship. 2. Huge State funding to Western academia 3. Creating victim narrative
Then some people came and put up a fence around a small area. They called the people who were outside the fence "outfencers."
Everyone inside the fence was called fencers and would have to obey to the rules. Those who resisted were killed. 1/
The goal of the fencers was to expand their territory and the people in it.
The fencers (or "infencers") were taught that the people outside the fence (out-fencers) were evil, because they didn't follow infencer rules.
The only way to save them was to make them infencers. 2/
Infencers were able to expand because they all believed one thing.
When they encountered others and called them "outfencers", the people who lived in a world-without-fences, didn't know what that meant. We are just people, they said.
As comments here show, the Indian Left bases its arguments largely on the strawman fallacy. It is immune to discussion; since it has not taken the first step of accurately understanding its opponent's positions.
Its "moral supremacy" is based on tilting against windmills.
I do not consider myself "Left" or "Right." These categories are an imposition of Western political history and theory onto a non-Western society, and a form of colonialism.
I call the Indian Left as Left or Marxist, because it self-identifies as such.
The Indian Left routinely dubs those they disagree with as "Fascists"/"Nazis." These are not self-descriptions (unless the groups self-identity as such) but polemics. As polemics they are good for propaganda or as virtue-signalling to their Western peers.
1. No one is my “ideological guru” till I say so. 2. One quote in some historical context does not prove “inspired by Hitler.” To claim a movement is inspired by another needs far more evidence. 3. Hindus sheltered Jews, #ChristoIslam persecuted them.
Absolutely. Secularism was created to deal with the problems caused by totalitarian monotheisms. Every schism wanted to eliminate the other, leading to endless wars in Europe.
It has *no* application to pagan/dharmik majority societies; other than to control Abrahamic religions.
Got to Ministry of Minority Affairs and find the list of all the schemes which exclude Hindus. The total budget for this Ministry of Religious Discrimination (started by UPA) has increased the most under the Modi Govt.