Islamic totalitarianism
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Islamic totalitarianism[1] is a term coined by Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers[2].
In February 2006 they issued a manifesto (full text at Wikisource ) called Together facing the new totalitarianism[3] in which they compare Islamism to the great global threats of the 20th century: Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism.
The group of writers claim that ""It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats." and "We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all" [1][2]
[edit] Members of the group
- India-born British writer Salman Rushdie
- Somali-born Dutch feminist writer and filmmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Iranian writer Chahla Chafiq, who is exiled in France
- French writer Caroline Fourest
- Irshad Manji, a Ugandan refugee and writer living in Canada
- Mehdi Mozaffari, an Iranian academic exiled in Denmark
- Maryam Namazie, an Iranian Communist activist exiled in Britain
- Antoine Sfeir, director of a French review examining the Middle East
- Director of Charlie Hebdo - Philippe Val
- Ibn Warraq, a US academic of Indian and Pakistani origin who wrote a book titled: Why I Am Not a Muslim
