Activist Islam: Malcolm X praying at a mosque in Cairo while on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964.

Red Islam

In the contemporary world, Islam – instead of being a force for emancipation – is being grotesquely jihadized into a violent form of extremism. This is a natural result of the social logic of imperialist capitalism which turns religion into a mode of illusory satisfaction for the subalterns. . . .