Islamofascism
Sign in to saveIslamofascism is a portmanteau of the words fascism and Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism, which advocate authoritarianism and violent extremism to establish an Islamic state, in addition to promoting offensive Jihad. For example, Qutbism has been characterized as an Islamofascist and Islamic terrorist ideology.
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24 sectionsContents
- Concepts and overview
- Background and origins
- Meaning and history of the term
- Uses
- Young Egypt Party
- Post World War II
- Advent of Islamism
- Popularisation after the September 2001 attacks
- Origins of the popularization
- Criticism
- 2008 Homeland Security memo
- Perspectives of Islamists on fascism
- Hassan al-Banna on nationalism
- Ayatollah Khomeini on fascism
- Impact of Julius Evola on Islamism
- Journalistic perspectives
- Scholarly perspective
- Support
- Criticism
- See also
- Citations
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Islamofascism is a portmanteau of the words fascism and Islamism or Islamic fundamentalism, which advocate authoritarianism and violent extremism to establish an Islamic state, in addition to promoting offensive Jihad. For example, Qutbism has been characterized as an Islamofascist and Islamic terrorist ideology.
Interactions between Muslim figures and fascism began as early as 1933, and some used the term fascism to describe as diverse phenomenon as the Pakistan independence movement, Gamal Abdel Nasser's Arab nationalism in Egypt, religious appeals used by Arab dictatorships to stay in power, and the Young Egypt Party (a fascist era-group inspired by Italian fascism). The invention of the term has been variously attributed to Khalid Duran, Lulu Schwartz, and Christopher Hitchens. Beginning in the 1990s, some scholars have described fascist influences to refer to violent Islamist movements such as those of Ruhollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden, and "reached its apogee" following the September 11 attacks, but by 2018 it had "largely" disappeared from use among policymakers and academics.