There is no shortage of analysis on the cooperation between today’s Western political-financial elites and jihadist movements. What is discussed far less is the curious overlap between jihad and certain strands of the so-called “alternative” or anti-system opposition. Perhaps the reason is simple: dissidents outside the establishment have fewer resources with which to materially support jihad. Yet the phenomenon is no less intriguing — because it suggests that the project of conquering the West is smarter, or at least more adaptive, than many assume. And that cleverness may be less the result of a master plan than of spontaneous alignment.
In Breaking the Walls II I wrote about the trend of European Catholic conservatives converting to Islam. Once mocked, marginalized, and pushed out of polite society, these men convert — and suddenly they are permitted to voice the most uncompromising traditional views on women and sexual morality. Not only without punishment, but with invitations to national television. The same words that once made them pariahs now grant them a platform.
In Britain, Nigel Farage has found himself partly dependent on Muslim donors. Thus he rails against mass migration — yet Islam, we are told, is a “great religion,” grooming gangs have nothing to do with it, and Tommy Robinson is simply a criminal who belongs behind bars.
And now we have Tucker Carlson. Just days ago his audience was informed that Pakistanis in Britain are friendly, peaceable people and that London is perfectly safe. Meanwhile, prominent among his new supporters is the “Muslim-American” financier Omeed Malik — and Tucker’s ties to Qatar’s leadership remain uncomfortably opaque.
I never held him in particularly high regard. I knew he mixed truth with nonsense, and that he was willing to lie when convenient — as revealed by his emails during the Dominion case. Even so, seeing him drift toward apologetics for Islamization is unsettling, regardless of the many issues on which he may be right.
Those of us who remember the old days of the anti-Islam movement will recall the usual progression: first, people become convinced that everything is the fault of the Jews. The next step is obvious — who, then, is the natural ally against Jews? Why, the Muslim community. And disaster follows swiftly. This is not to say that one must cheer every policy of every Jewish institution or the State of Israel. But once critique mutates into conspiracy, it swings the door wide open for Islamic ambitions.