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The Alliance to Watch: Progressive Leftist and Islamists

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is perhaps one of the clearer embodiments of these two political/ideological/religious movements that have become unlikely bedfellows. Dalia Al-Aqidi—a journalist who fled Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: A dangerous political alliance is taking shape between the Democratic Socialists of America and radical political Islam. These two forces, seemingly different, together threaten the foundations of the American republic. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a political reality taking root at cities like New York and Minneapolis, and it is spreading. Unless voters push back, this movement will continue infiltrating local governments, statehouses, and eventually, national leadership…. What do radical socialists and Islamist activists have in common? They both reject the foundations of American democracy. Both weaponize identity to silence dissent. Both normalize antisemitism, relentlessly attacking Israel while refraining from holding Hamas accountable for the October 7thterrorist massacre and its consequences. And they both reject personal responsibility in favor of top-down ideological control. This emerging alliance between the far left and Islamic radicals is  using the electoral process not to serve democracy, but to subvert it.  It behooves Americans to name it, confront it, and reject attempts to normalize its agenda (New York Sun). Eli Lake looks at what he calls “a cognitively dissonant red-green alliance,” pointing to the left’s embrace of the Iranian revolution as the root or the origin: In the West, the politics of the Gaza war features a strange marriage between political Islam and the 21st-century Western left. For instance, the Democratic Socialists of America simultaneously support making New York a national hub for transgender youth medicine but also want to globalize the intifada. It supports the bleeding edge of social progressive values while throwing its full support behind the fanatic fascists who filmed their mass murder of Jews and proudly posted the videos to Telegram. The first example of this cognitively dissonant red-green alliance arose during Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1978 and 1979. Inside the country, many of the socialist and liberal factions ultimately accepted the leadership of the radical Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but they did so for cynical reasons. Khomeini’s politics were extreme and reactionary, many of Iran’s socialists and liberals knew, but they believed he lacked the political skills to really take over the country (Free Press).