Centrist religious conservatives ally with Muslims against a shared secularist enemy.

Evidence

Their motives include concerns with interreligious conflicts in the Middle East, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the West, and the secularization of American society. In contrast to right-wing religious conservative Christians, who hold fast to their belief that secular liberalism and Islam are interconnected threats, centrist religious conservative Christians and Jews are finding partners in Religious Racial Muslims in the broader culture wars, wherein they believe that monotheistic religions are under attack by the burgeoning civil religion of secularism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 994

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: an essay on how the culture wars realign religious minorities into coalitions against secularism, countering the usual left-right binary.
• QUESTION: How does this 2000s coalition compare with the current alliance between Jewish organizations and Muslim civil-rights groups?
• XREF: connects to: Secularists and Christians alike weaponized Islam as a foil despite opposite agendas. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 30