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Have you wondered about why Islamists [aka jihadists] and communists/socialists appear to align themselves in the West?
The apparent alignment of Islamists and the radical left in the West is a tactical alliance of convenience, directed against shared enemies, and nothing more. It is not ideological harmony, nor any genuine synthesis of worldviews.
Islamists, those committed to political Islam, the imposition of sharia, or theocratic rule, are permanently incompatible with communists or socialists. One rests on atheistic materialism and class struggle; the other on divine revelation and the supremacy of the ummah. One sees history as dialectical process; the other as the unfolding of God’s will. Can you guess which is which?
Wherever either has secured power, the other has been purged: Iran after 1979, Soviet Afghanistan, the various Arab socialist experiments. The pattern is consistent and instructive.
In the West the cooperation is narrower and more limited--campus coalitions, street protests, immigration politics, and anti-Israel activism--yet it's real. Both treat liberal democracy, classical liberalism, free speech on matters of religion and sex, market capitalism, and above all Israel and the United States as the primary obstacles.
After the 1960s the Western left largely abandoned pure class analysis for an identity-based “oppressor-oppressed” framework. Islamists fit neatly into the “oppressed” category via postcolonial theory, while Zionism or Western policy is cast as the oppressor. The result is joint rallies, BDS campaigns, and campus occupations in which progressive slogans and Islamist symbols appear side by side.
Hard communists remain fringe; the practical partners are the broader progressive, socialist, and intersectional currents that absorbed Marxist categories and repurposed them. The arrangement is strictly tactical.
Islamists gain platforms, funding channels, legal cover, and demographic leverage inside open societies.
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Western leftist factions gain reliable voting blocs, street muscle, and moral leverage against conservatives. European left parties have courted Muslim organizations for municipal power; American campuses after 7 October 2023 displayed the same selective silence on honor violence, apostasy penalties, and gender segregation that would be intolerable from any other group.
For the moment both sides regard liberalism itself as the greater threat. Historical precedents confirm the pattern without implying any deeper fusion. Soviet support for certain anti-Western Islamist or nationalist movements during the Cold War was pure realpolitik.
Anti-colonial rhetoric supplied a shared vocabulary that outlived the USSR. Once power shifted, the alliances dissolved into repression.
But the sleazy partnership is brittle.
Islamist social conservatism on women, sexuality, blasphemy, and Jews collides with progressive priorities the moment enforcement is attempted. Secular leftists who still notice the data on integration, crime patterns, or polling on sharia, homosexuality, and Israel among many Muslim-majority migrant communities peel away.
Islamists, for their part, regard communism as kufr and have no long-term interest in proletarian internationalism. Where demographic or institutional power tilts toward one side, the other is discarded. Explanations that reduce the phenomenon solely to “Islamophobia,” “racism,” or pure leftist idealism ignore the repeated, observable pattern of selective solidarity and the explicit statements from both Islamist and radical-left organizers about using each other.
Equally crude are those that treat every Muslim as an Islamist or every progressive as a communist. It just isn't so.
The alignment exists where interests coincide against the liberal center and the right; it is not a marriage of worldviews. History suggests this alliance will not survive the moment one party no longer needs the other. When demographic change or institutional capture shifts the balance of power, the temporary truce will end as it always has—in mutual repudiation and, where possible, suppression.
The West will then discover, once again, that the enemies of its enemies were never its friends.
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