by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch
On the Red-Green Alliance:
Just days ago the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair had a piece in the Times with the title, “We must end left’s unholy alliance with the Islamists”. It is good to see he and others finally catching on this. Perhaps the best example of this bizarre alliance comes in the form of Mamdani in NYC. I quite like how Ayaan Hirsi Ali began her latest article on this matter:
Aristotle called it the first law of thought: a thing cannot simultaneously be and not be. A proposition is either true or it isn’t. This seems obvious until you watch an entire political civilization organize itself around ignoring it, most clearly seen in the unstable partnership between Muslim activists and the progressive left.
Whatever its failures, almost the only consistent virtue of Islam is that it does not ignore Aristotle’s maxim. The tradition makes totalizing claims—about God, about governance, about the hierarchy of the sexes—and it has carried those claims across centuries without revision. I find those claims wrong—some of them monstrously so. But they are, at minimum, coherent, corresponding to themselves. The faith is honest about what it is. The same cannot be said, however, of the coalition now courting its voters.
The rise of Muslim political power in America is less a demographic shift than a slow-motion collision of irreconcilable worldviews. Muslim Americans are winning elections at a pace that would have seemed fanciful twenty years ago. New York City now has a Muslim mayor in Zohran Mamdani — a democratic socialist who ran with enthusiastic backing from progressive institutions, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, and the organized, activist left. https://www.restoringthewest.com/
Many have been warning about this alliance for quite some time now. And the same phrase has been used as well. Over two decades ago David Horowitz wrote the important volume, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Regnery, 2004). In it he documented how the radical left and radical Islam are quite happy to share a large, ugly bed together as they both war against the West.
Horowitz was Jewish and a former Marxist who became a leading conservative later in life. Now we have a similar sort of volume just released by Michael Youssef, an Egyptian-born, American-based Christian writer and speaker. It is called An Unholy Alliance: How Progressivism Brought About an Islamist Invasion (Ascaine Press, 2026).
His new volume is also quite helpful, and for those not up on the conflict we are now facing in the West, his discussion of what has been termed the Omnicause is well worth reading. If anything, things are even much worse than when Horowitz was sounding the alarm 22 years ago. Youssef also upholds Mamdani as a key example of this dangerous alliance: