It is good that haters of Muslims like May now feel the need to deny that that is what they are. The next step would be to make arguments which don't turn around and make that clear.
Kremlinology (more common than Sovietology) was an attempt to understand what a particular secretive government was doing. May begins by pretending he is only after a small group of Muslims waging war against us, but throughout the article this expands so that diverse groups not all of whom are doing anything against us all wind up falling under the banner. To compare studying all of these groups to Sovietology requires a complete misunderstanding of what Sovietology was, or what the Muslim threat is, or both.
Google “Islamist” and you’ll get more than 24 million hits. Google “jihadist” and you’ll get millions more. Yet I bet the average American could not tell you what it is that Islamists and jihadists believe. And those at the highest levels of the U.S. government refuse to do so.
Why? John Brennan, the top counterterrorism adviser in the White House, argues that it is “counterproductive” to describe America’s “enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate...
If you actually can point out something wrong in what I said, please do. Do you think Sovietology was not about understanding how the actual government in the USSR functioned? Do you think that religious Shiite and Sunni radicals are part of the same conspiracy? Or can you just offer "I don't want you to be right so I will call you wrong?"