Researcher warns of “Wokism ideology”

Hisham Al-Ismaili, a researcher in the field of human rights and international studies, warned of what is known as the “Wokism movement,” saying that it has become “like a religion for Western elites, a religion without forgiveness that cannot abandon its beliefs that aim to abolish culture and eradicate any national identity or values ​​that conflict with it.” With his ideology, by reconstructing history and abolishing beliefs and references in a radical way.”

Al-Ismaili said in an article entitled “The Ideology of Wokism: Deepening the Crisis of Values ​​and Displacing References,” published by “Labbab Magazine for Strategic Studies” at the Al Jazeera Center in Qatar, that “the spread of a group of contemporary social justice movements was accompanied by the emergence of a radical ideology, which some thinkers call the Wokism movement.”

He added that it is “a neoliberal ideology whose innovators and defenders push Western political elites, giant companies, international institutions and non-governmental organizations… towards fundamentalism, by moving from defending the rights of ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination on the basis of race and color, to focusing on gender and sexual minorities, and rejecting the traditional nuclear family as a model.” Ideal for society, and treating any sexual orientation as natural and moral.”

He continued: “Minority status alone no longer gains the sympathy of the modernist left, as indicators of the small demographic share and pro-gender ideological orientations on disability and sexual identity politics have become mainly important, as evidence and indicator, and deprivation calls for giving it great importance in international and national agendas and policies.”

The researcher pointed out that “Wokism ideology has become adept at disguising itself in the form of a movement aiming to achieve social justice through a network of international institutions, civil society, and political and economic elites… but in reality it does not oppose manifestations of legitimate social inequality. It is a utopian ideology with no limits to its scope.” In order to abolish national culture, references, values ​​and identities, through its obsession with combating inequality based on gender.”

He stated, “This missionary vision aims to combat what it considers to be evil represented by national values, identities, and cultural and religious references in society. That is, it considers itself a Puritan, purifying religion.”

As for the important effects of the “Puritan Movement,” the writer said: “Because of its emphasis on individual freedom, the emergence of a new bourgeoisie. Individual freedom and the success that accompanied it in the field of industry made the followers of Puritanism care about wealth, pleasure, and the love of possession (it focuses on pleasure and consumption by separating between The good and evil of (LGBTphobia, transphobia, and genderphobia) across countless social, political, and economic networks.”