بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful
Racial, ethnic and religious tensions are currently at a boiling point in the United Kingdom, while the temperature is rising fast in much of the rest of Europe and the Anglosphere.
The needle that has broken the camel’s back is the recent murder of Henry Nowak by a Nihang Sikh, Vickrum Digwa, in Southampton and the attempted murder and maiming of Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast by a Black Sudanese asylum seeker, Hadi Alodid.
It is critical that Muslims, especially those of us living in the West as a vulnerable minority, totally understand the dynamics behind the rise of the Far Right and the growing trend of White nationalism and nativism.
To date, I have not come across any Muslim influencer, leader or intellectual that has accurately diagnosed the situation and its implications for us. It is fair to say that Muslims in the West are more or less oblivious to the cause and reality of this tidal wave that is apparently heading in our direction. And it is fair to say that our community here is mostly passive and not active in any meaningful sense of the word.
Muslims in the West committed the blunder of focusing on the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to the total detriment of the social sciences, and crucial fields like journalism, psychology, law and political science. The Jewish community, however, did not make this blunder, which explains why their lobby in Western countries are so much more influential and effective than ours, and why they have produced a superior intelligentsia to guide and empower their people.
This begins to explain why Muslims are unable to do effective politics in the West. Our poor excuse for a political leadership and representation is unable to articulate our interests let alone produce a strategy to protect and advance them.
Undoubtedly, the Left and the liberal political establishment in the West is doing its best to prevent the rise of an independent Muslim political leadership, especially in those Western European countries that have significantly large Muslim populations like the UK, France and Germany. Muslims should recognize that our interests fundamentally diverge from those of the liberal Left, yet the latter arrogantly speaks on behalf of us.
But despite the obvious fact that Muslims are the primary, arguably exclusive, target of the Far Right’s hatred and bigotry, the liberal Left is more interested in placing the LGBTQ “community” at the forefront of everything. Muslims don’t even realize that we vastly outnumber the LGBTQ and other minorities the liberal Left expends considerably more effort representing and celebrating, and that we are being taken for granted in the worst conceivable manner.
The tired mantra of the Left is that everything is about class, and the only identity politics that is valid is the working class identity. Keep in mind that the base of the Far Right are so-called working class White people. The Left does not want to disassociate from such people, it wants to convince them and us that we all have the same interests and are oppressed by the same enemy (the capitalists). The Left is gaslighting Muslims and some other minorities in this regard.
The 21st century thus far has been a time of rapid demographic transformation of the West. The United States of America is now barely 60% White non-Hispanic. In Canada it is 70%, in the UK it is 80% and in France and Germany it is approximately 75%.
The Far Right narrative is that this demographic transformation is the result of a conspiracy known as the Great Replacement. The more ideological elements of the Far Right hold Jewish elites as the main force behind the replacement and gradual elimination of White people through the phenomenon of mass migration of non-White peoples to the West.
I also lean toward the view that a powerful cabal that is ultimately responsible for policy is predominantly Jewish and there are at least some elements within that cabal which thirst for revenge against Western civilization for its history of inflicting pogroms and the Holocaust upon them. Apparently, this project of cold revenge involves mass migration of non-White people to bring about the collapse and final destruction of Western civilization.
Religious Jews understand Edom in the Bible as a reference to Western Christendom, and that Jewry is destined to clash with and defeat Edom or Rome when the Davidic Messiah arrives.
Secular Jews are not content to wait for a Messiah that may never come and largely see the current State of Israel as replacing any need for some future savior. While today the State of Israel is reckoning with its surrounding Arab and Muslim neighbors, having more or less pacified them, they are not heedless of the fact that tomorrow it would have been Europe and Christendom that proved to be the more dangerous enemy had it not been mired in its current demographic crisis.
The Zionist alliance with the Far Right, or at least a major element thereof, is a somewhat fragile one. It is not a partnership of equals. Its raison d’être is the common enmity toward the growing Muslim presence in the West. The Far Right’s opposition to growing Muslim numbers in the West is obvious and understandable vis-à-vis the Great Replacement, while the Zionist anxiety is that Muslim voters will continue to pressure politicians to further distance their governments from the State of Israel.
This marriage of convenience begins to break down over time as more of the rank and file of the Far Right are exposed to theories about Jews controlling the political establishment and being the principal force behind the Great Replacement.
Already, influential figures on the Far Right like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly have ruptured their previous association with Zionism, but others, like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson in the UK are still in the Zionist lobby’s pocket. Yet the trajectory is plainly in favor of a greater share of the Far Right leaders and influencers being either non-Zionist or outright anti-Zionist.
While Muslims are and will remain the primary target of popular discontent by not only the Far Right but even mainstream conservatives, other minority groups are targeted by them from time to time. A phase of “transphobia” lasted for some time largely driven by another marriage of convenience, this time between the Far Right and so-called TERF movement (Trans-exclusionary radical feminists). During the Covid-19 pandemic, East Asians were targeted. Subsequently, Indians, especially Hindus, were on the receiving end of a storm of online hate. Now, the senseless murder of Henry Nowak by a Sikh man, with his family members having committed accessory after the fact, results in the Sikh community facing some harmful backlash.
Muslims should not be hasty in jumping to defend or stand in solidarity with any other minority community that is targeted with bigotry by the Far Right. Firstly, we have to reserve whatever resources we have to combat the Far Right for ourselves. We are not in a position to be charitable to others in this sense. Secondly, these other minorities utterly failed to stand up for and show any solidarity with us Muslims since the onset of modern Islamophobia which essentially began in the aftermath of 9/11. On the contrary, significant elements within these other minorities often jump on the bandwagon of anti-Muslim hate, either to deflect hostility toward their own communities or because they genuinely hate us Muslims as much as the Far Right. This is especially true of Hindus, Sikhs, LGBTQ, Hispanics and even Blacks.
The Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his family, famously said:
لاَ يُلْدَغُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ وَاحِدٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ
“The Believer is not stung from the same hole twice.”
It would be unwise for Muslims to pursue any political alliance with the Left in general, or specific other minority groups that have a history of backstabbing us, even as a means of pushing back against the Far Right juggernaut.
Now let us turn to a more uncomfortable and inconvenient truth. We Muslims are least partially to blame for the ascendancy of the Far Right and for giving them ammunition and justification to resent us. The rising trend of migrants from certain countries and backgrounds, confessing Islam as their religion while committing serious crimes, especially violence, rape, sexual assault and grooming, in which the victims are usually ordinary and innocent White people, will naturally fuel the flames that are engulfing us in the West.
The most recent example of this trend is Hadi Alodid, a Black Sudanese migrant and asylum seeker who attempted to behead a local man openly on the streets of Belfast, severely maiming him in the process. Before this there was the Somali immigrant Essa Suleiman who stabbed two visibly Jewish men in the streets of London back in April of this year.
It seems there is a mental health crisis in a segment of the Muslim community coming from Africa, but also other places like Afghanistan, exemplified in the case of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, and Syria as exemplified in the case of Jihad al-Shamie. In fact, it is safe to say that most if not all the lone wolf terrorist attacks by Muslims in the West, including those committed in the name of ISIS, are not actually genuinely ideological but ultimately rooted in some mental health crisis of the perpetrator.
Yes, many of our youth are extremely upset about the genocide of our Palestinian brethren in Gaza at the hands of the barbaric Zionists, and the current wars being waged by the Americans and the Zionists in Iran and Lebanon. They lash out by attacking soft Jewish targets like synagogues and visibly Orthodox Jews here in the West. Such attacks, however, only expose their feeling of utter frustration, helplessness and despair. Aside from the obvious immorality of such actions, they accomplish nothing, rather give further ammunition to our enemies as a means of spreading anti-Muslim propaganda.
The energy of these restless teenagers, whose hormones are surging and whose frontal cortex hasn’t developed fully, needs to be channeled constructively.
But it is the sexual aggression of some of our youth in the West directed against White women and girls that may be considered the greatest boon for the Far Right. Nathaniel Veltman, who murdered a Pakistani Muslim family in London, Ontario in June 2021, explained clearly that it was the Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK which so infuriated him, becoming his single motivation for committing his ghastly deed.
One cannot emphasize enough how shameful it is for us Muslims collectively to now be associated with the crimes of rape, sexual assault and grooming of especially young girls when we are meant to be the most disciplined and modest in this regard. When during the 2015-2016 New Year’s eve in Germany hundreds of Arab and North Africans youths committed large scale sexual assaults of young women, the public mood there quickly turned against the Muslim community. It significantly damaged the goodwill that was previously shown to especially Syrian refugees, a million of whom Germany agreed to allow into its borders.
Do we Muslims deserve this painful stigmatization of being predatory that is fueling the Far Right’s rise which will only marginalize us further? The ordinary Muslim in the West will realize soon enough how much of a persona non grata he or she has become. The community will suffer blatant discrimination in employment and housing. It is at least partially due to the disgusting culture of sexual harassment of women that is so prevalent among us Muslims and in our countries of origin.
I believe the principal cause of this sexual aggression of young Muslim, especially Arab men, is the phenomenon of delayed marriage. Islam strongly encourages marriage of both males and females as soon as they hit adolescence as a means of strengthening the community and preventing the spread of sexual immorality and fornication. The Muslim and Arab world has learned the hard way that delaying the marriage of their youths due to economic reasons has resulted in sexual immorality becoming so widespread. This is a tremendous topic which deserves a separate discussion of its own.
Far Right political parties have already achieved considerable success including the formation of and participation in governments in places like Italy and Finland. Donald Trump’s presidency and Elon Musk’s massive wallet will continue to serve the mainstreaming of the Far Right and its success in Europe. It is on a direct course to emerge triumphant in any future election held in the UK and France, and perhaps even Germany. Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is certainly slated to form the next government in the UK unless something drastic happens to prevent that in the foreseeable future. Now, more than ever, Muslims in the UK need to plan for that likelihood and produce a national strategy to survive in a climate of hate that will target our people first and foremost in a way that mirrors the total marginalization and stigmatization of Muslims in BJP governed India.
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