Author: Islamist Threat ‘Played Down’ Partly Thanks to Identity Politics

The threat of Islamism has been “played down” in the West partly because of identity politics, says journalist and author Daniel Ben-Ami. He told NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” that the Islamist ideology, unlike Islam as a religion, is a “totalitarian movement” that’s similar to Nazism and Stalinism and “inherently anti-Semitic.” However, with the identitarian worldview permeating through the West, “we can’t talk about it” because Muslims are considered “inherently oppressed,” he said. The anti-Semitism expert said he believes people don’t understand the nature of the Islamist movement. The Muslim faith is not inherently anti-Semitic. Mr. Ben-Ami said, “Islamism is something different. It’s a political movement, religio-political movement.”...