Watch the rallies long enough and the picture stops being confusing. Rainbow flags next to Hamas scarves. Women’s marches that go silent the moment a girl in Kabul is locked out of school. Campus feminists who will lecture a Christian baker into bankruptcy and then shrug at honor killings. The progressive left has spent half a century preaching liberation. Hardcore Islam would hang the preacher.
So why the alliance?
William Teach asked the question again this week at The Pirate’s Cove, pointing to a clip that has been making the rounds. The argument is not new. It is just getting harder to laugh off.
I keep wondering why the left is so obsessed with defending an ideology that would be the first to execute them. Democrats have spent decades fighting for things like women’s rights, and yet they defend countries where women are banned from school, where honor killings happen, and where wives have no legal protection from abuse. They wave pride flags at every parade, and yet they defend countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.
On the surface they agree on nothing. One side wants abortion on demand, gender as a costume, and the family as an optional lifestyle. The other side wants a legal system that treats women as half-witnesses and homosexuals as criminals. That contradiction does not bother the organizers because the partnership was never about shared values. It is about a shared target.
They Cannot Build Until the West Falls
What they have in common is the enemy. The West. The country that still, however bruised, runs on a Bible-soaked idea that the individual is made in the image of God, that speech is not a crime, and that the state does not own your soul. The Marxist cannot finish his revolution while that order still stands. The Islamist cannot impose sharia while that order still stands. So they tear it down first and fight over the ruins later.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? They are agreed on the demolition. That is enough for now.
The Marxist is sure he is the smart one. He platforms the imam, launders every massacre as “resistance,” and votes the activists into city hall. He thinks he is using the Islamists for muscle. History is not kind to that conceit.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called the pattern what it is: old ideological lines giving way to operational alliances. They do not need the same destination. They only need the same enemy. Free, self-governing people.
Iran Already Wrote the Ending
In 1978 and 1979, Iranian leftists, nationalists, and Islamists locked arms to bring down the Shah. Workers struck. Students marched. Marxists did the street work and told themselves they would inherit the future. Ayatollah Khomeini took the country. Then he purged the people who handed it to him.
Unions were crushed. Universities were “Islamized.” Leftist parties that had backed the referendum for an Islamic republic discovered, too late, that the clerics did not need them anymore. Revolutionary courts did the rest. Thousands of political opponents were tried and killed. The Tudeh communists, the student Marxists, the useful theorists who thought they were riding a tiger. They were food.
That is not a metaphor. That is the rehearsal.
Islamists do not hide the method. They say they will use the left until they have numbers and institutions. Then the rainbow flag comes down. Then the lecture about “no right to judge” becomes a courtroom with a different law. The left hears the words and keeps marching anyway.
The Useful Idiots Have Offices Now
This is no longer a campus hobby. New York’s black-red alliance made it municipal. Zohran Mamdani ran as a socialist and as a relentless critic of America and Israel, then took City Hall. Melanie Phillips has described the glue holding that coalition together. Islamists and ultra-leftists do not share a moral universe. They share a loathing of the West and a special hatred for the Jewish state. Israel is the battering ram. Knock it down and you have knocked a hole in America.
Look at the supporting cast. Darializa Avila Chevalier, a convert to Islam and a DSA-aligned candidate, co-founded Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a group whose stated aims include the “full eradication of Western civilization” and the cultivation of unrest in America. She has called for abolishing police, prisons, and borders. She supported Hamas after October 7.
She is not a fringe blogger. She is what the coalition produces when it wins primaries.
The same pattern is spreading through Democratic politics. Anti-Israel politics as a loyalty test. Open borders as a sacrament. Any criticism of radical Islam treated as a hate crime. The American Spectator has noted how the old economic left has been replaced by an identity army that now includes people suddenly fascinated with Islam.
The proletariat was supposed to do the job. Now the job is assigned to migrants, campus radicals, and anyone willing to treat the American founding as original sin.
A second clip Teach flagged shows the moral collapse in miniature. A white liberal woman insists she has no right to judge radical Islamists. Asked whether she has more in common with a Trump supporter or a radical Islamist, she answers the Islamist. Someone shouting “Allahu Akbar,” in her telling, is better than a MAGA hat.
That is not compassion. That is self-erasure with a press pass.
She would rather share a sidewalk with a movement that stones adulterers than with a neighbor who voted wrong. She will not judge the honor killing. She will judge the church picnic. She has been catechized to see her own civilization as the only real villain, so every enemy of that civilization becomes a friend of convenience.
The West Is the Prize
Call it the red-green alliance, Islamo-leftism, or the red jihad. The label matters less than the mechanism. One faction wants a godless state that remakes man. The other wants a religious state that submits him. Both need the constitutional order gone. Both have discovered that American institutions, universities, and a guilt-soaked Democratic Party will hold the door.
The Islamist is not confused about women, Jews, or sexual morality. The left is confused about almost everything except its hatred of the country that made its slogans possible. That is why the partnership works. One side has doctrine. The other side has institutions and a media chorus that will call every warning “bigotry.”
When the job is done, they will not vote on the spoils. They will settle it the way Tehran settled it. The people who thought they were in charge will learn, in a hurry, that useful idiots are useful only until they are not.
A nation that will not defend its own inheritance should not be shocked when others show up ready to inherit it. The left keeps fighting for hardcore Islam because it cannot stand the West enough to notice the noose.
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