We have lots of leftists supporting fundamental muslims with Hamas Hezbollah and the Islamic regime in Iran.
The leftists socialists and communists supported the Islamic revolution in 1979 in Iran.
When Khomeini took power he had no use for these useful idiots so he executed them.
Leftists for Jihad: A Warning from History
“This position of the far-left to defend Islamic extremists demonstrates a cognitive dissonance of an unbridled magnitude. As a secular Muslim Arab who has lived my entire life in the Middle East and North Africa, I find the level of convergence of the far-left in the West and the Islamists (who represent a far-right ideology) both perplexing and alarming… Most of them seem to be under the impression that Islamist acts of terror against the West and Israel only occur because of Western imperialism or support for Israel, when in fact the Islamists have been committing terrorist acts against the Arab world for centuries… It has nothing to do with Western imperialism, but, in fact, has to do with Islamist imperialism.”
On October 7th 2023, the Islamic supremacists of Hamas sent scores of their men from Gaza into Israel. They proceeded to slaughter and abuse any Jews they could lay their hands on, executing children in front of their parents, gang raping and sexually mutilating young women, and proudly broadcasting all of this to the world.
These atrocities have commanded unwavering support from young Western leftists, who have deluded themselves into thinking that Hamas are freedom fighters seeking to liberate Palestine from Zionist occupation, rather than jihadist fanatics seeking to annihilate the Jews and establish shari’ah. For months on end, they have marched in solidarity with whom they believe to be the Palestinian ‘resistance’.The defence of Islamic supremacists by the far-left is a textbook case of confirmation bias. To confirm their belief in Hamas as fellow anti-imperialists, Western leftists ignore or deny their religious extremism. They convince themselves that acts of religious violence are actually acts of defiance against Western imperialism. This is the same fatal mistake which has underpinned previous alliances between the far-left and the Islamic far-right. More than forty years ago in Iran, Islamists and the radical left joined forces, and the destructive consequences of that alliance provide us with crucial lessons for the present day. We will delve into those lessons here, adapting and expanding the words of the Ex-Muslim author Armin Navabi.
The Black and the Red
In the decades prior to 1979, Iran enjoyed significant progress in economic development, women’s rights, education, health, and other areas. Many of these positive developments, which occurred under the rulership of Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza Shah, provoked the fury of the Islamic clerical establishment. In tandem with this, the Shah’s repression of dissent and restriction of political freedoms galvanised restless Iranian leftists. In 1979, these two camps would combine to overthrow the Shah in an Islamic Revolution, with deadly consequences for those same leftists and the Iranian people as a whole.
In the years leading up to the revolution, Iranian leftists, deeply influenced by communist theories and literature, were growing impatient. Lacking the means to mobilise a people’s revolution by themselves, they found allies in the Islamic clergy. Many mullahs, including the Ayatollah Khomeini, grew increasingly enraged with the Shah due to their progressive reforms concerning women’s rights, which contradicted Islamic law (shari’ah). Iranian leftists observed the mullahs’ fight against the Western-backed Shah, and summarily concluded that they were anti-imperialists. By uniting with the mullahs and using their vast network of mosques and popular influence, the far-left reasoned, they would be powerful enough to overthrow imperialism.
Now of course, the conservative religious values of Islamic clergymen directly clash with the progressive socialist values of the far-left. Alas, cognitive bias led Iranian leftists to ignore or deny the religious fundamentalism of Khomeini and company. Thus, in forging a pact with the mullahs – which Mohammad Reza Shah famously referred to as the unholy alliance between “the black and the red” – these leftists believed that they could work together to stage a successful revolution against capitalism and colonialism. This would prove to be wishful thinking, to say the least. Before long, the far-left would be nothing more than a prop for clerical fascism, to be subsequently discarded, outlawed, and finally destroyed.
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