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Text taken from a tract of Marxists Unitarians (forthcoming)
The institutionalization of racism Islamophobic policy aims to give legitimacy to the imperialist wars called "anti-terrorism" worldwide. Thus, in the name of the fight against "obscurantist Muslims" that the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan have been reported.
France, it must be remembered, maintains troops in Afghanistan and has just joined the military command of NATO. His opposition to the diplomatic war in Iraq did not stop military cooperation with allies and of keeping good relations with the invaders.
refusal to support the Palestinian resistance is given as an excuse the denial of Islam. Palestinian parties who are fighting against the Zionist occupation are reported in the Western media for their "fanaticism" religious. The strategy is crude: Based on Islamophobic stereotypes, we reject claims Muslim terrorism, and it supports the Zionist state terrorism.
Without adhering to the values held by most Islamist parties, we require that they be recognized as representatives of popular will, if are supported by the majority (as is the case of Hamas in Palestine).
In all these cases, the argument of fighting against Islam, or Islamism (amalgams are facilitated by the racist climate fostered by the media) identified as a carrier of incitement to terrorism and fanaticism, is used to justify different forms of colonization, bloody repression of the people.
We must fight the criminalization of Islam to justify murder on a European scale (as in the case of Marwan El-Sherbini) and the imperialist war on a global scale.
Support Palestinian resistance, support resistance to Western imperialism in the Middle East must begin by fighting in the West the foundations of the legitimacy of colonialism, racism and Islamophobia.
A (re) read this article by John Mullen, Islamophobia - the catastrophic forgetting the left ...
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