Raphael Kalyviotis on the “Islamo-Christian” Right in the West
A rising alliance between far-right and far-left factions in the West increasingly embraces Islamism, challenging traditional Western values while aligning with globalist agendas that reject nationalism.
Behind the retreat from antisemitism and hatred of capitalism in the West, a phenomenon is rising that unites the far left’s sympathy for the intifada and the far right’s sympathy for Adolf Hitler: Islam.
Both of these trends prefer the rise of Islam over the remaking of the West through an ethno-capitalist model.
While this phenomenon is not unusual on the far left, since the Muslim immigrant has replaced the white worker who ultimately had a homeland, on the right, voices that gained worldwide prominence through their podcasts—such as Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes—have, based on the war in Gaza and the war in Iran, unfolded their vision of a diluted Christianity that prefers Islamic headgear over Western capitalism.
In the Washington Post, Matthew Schmitz recalls the prophetic novel “Submission” by Michel Houellebecq, which suggests that members of the far right might even come to admire Islam itself.
Tucker Carlson, for example, who constantly emphasizes his Christian faith, contrasts the “white suicide” due to declining birth rates with the Gulf Muslims who still believe in their religion and culture.
Andrew Tate, an alt-right persona, is reportedly said to have converted to Islam because of Islam’s stance on women, aiming to restore a hardline patriarchy as a reaction against radical feminism.
The neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes called on Islamic countries to resist, saying, “America is the seat of the liberal empire that controls the world, and we are enemies of this liberal order.”
He even praised the Taliban as a “conservative, religious force” and did not hesitate to declare that a “Catholic Taliban government” in America would be an ideal arrangement for him.
Candace Owens reads excerpts from the Quran on podcasts and has openly discussed with her husband George Farmer the massive conversions of Westerners to Islam.
There is a small trap in all of this. The real global capital, whose facets we have seen at Davos and the Paris Olympic Games over so many years, moves hand in hand with the waves of Islamist migration to the West. And this is because they share many common elements in concepts and realities they wish to impose.
The first is the Ummah (Islamic community). Against personal conscience, borders, and individual freedom, both Islam and global capital reject borders.
The nation-state is the enemy of globalization, whether under radical Islam or the globalist forces seeking world governance.
The second is Sharia. Religion imposes law within a global Ummah. Globalists also seek their own universal religion through the vehicle of the Ummah.
Christianity, on the other hand, teaches free will and conscience. You do not answer to the state. You do not answer to the oppressor. You do not answer to the ruler. You answer to your conscience, which is aligned with God.
Christianity and Islam are incompatible concepts. Globalization and Islam are not. So, who ultimately defends national forces and who defends globalist ones?
