Islamic Fascism

Hamed Abdel-Samad, begins his book with the statement that ‘Islamism and fascism alike emerged from feelings of abject subjugation, united by empirebuilding goals with world domination. One movement believes in Aryan racial supremacy, the other in Muslim moral supremacy over the vast, unbelieving bulk of humanity’ (p. 15), but provides no evidence from the Islamic sources to prove that the emergence of Islam as a reactionary phenomenon in Makkah

was the result of ‘abject subjugation’. The author also refers to a talk he gave in Cairo on June 4, 2013, on religious fascism in Egypt, and states, ‘My argument in the talk had been that a fascist mentality had made its way into Islam long before the Muslim Brotherhood, that it was a product of the religious early history. Early Islam had brought Arab religious pluralism to an end, demanding total obedience from its followers, looking no dissenting opinion, and hungry for world domination. With this mindset being early Islam’s predominant feature, outweighing all other aspects of the faith, I argued we could talk about such a thing as “Islamofasciam”’ (p. 9).