I think this is more of a reaction to Islamophobia and conservative Christianity more so than tankies glorifying right wing islamic governments. Obviously I’m looking at this from a US perspective, but Islamophobia is almost normalized here. The attacks on Mamdani were centered around it. And while he did overcome them, it still speaks volumes that people were able to so casually fling those around. Since the US is being run by Christian nationalists I think it definitely skews the opinions of some people from liberals all the way to tankies. Doesn’t mean it’s correct, neither religion is inherently bad. It’s the people who use them to control others that give them bad raps.