Iran Is Collapsing, but Islamism Is Spreading

Article author: 
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Article publisher: 
The Free Press
Article date: 
3 March 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

... On February 26, the UK's Green Party won a parliamentary seat in Gorton and Denton that the Labour Party had held for decades... The obvious question is how a party associated with bike lanes... managed to seize a Labour stronghold in Greater Manchester...

The Greens ran two entirely separate campaigns. To progressive voters, they offered the standard mix of green... policies. To Muslim voters, who make up 30 percent of the Gorton and Denton electorate, they offered something else. Leaflets in Urdu, Bengali, and Arabic told readers that Labour must be punished for its complicity in the Israeli war in Gaza. The translated material framed the vote as a community act - a way for Muslims to speak with one voice... 

This is what the red-green alliance looks like when it works. The radical left needs votes. Islamist-aligned networks can deliver them. In return, the left provides political cover, amplifies grievance narratives, and treats any internal criticism of the arrangement as racism. The Greens offered a different face to each audience and collected votes from both. They won. The implications go well beyond one seat...

The red-green alliance has no particularly British character. It operates across Europe wherever the necessary conditions exist...

The radicals Iran spent 40 years cultivating are now in motion, seeking new ground. Some will surface in Europe. Some are already in America. The difference is that America is actively looking for them...

Related

How Socialist Muslims pulled off a 20-year takeover of the Democratic Party, by Asra Q. Nomani, Fox News, 10 July 2025.

Book: The Red-Green Axis 2.0: An Existential Threat to America and the World, by James Simpson, 2019:

The Red-Green Axis is a collusion between the Democratic Party, American Communists, Socialists and other brands of "progressives", i.e., the Red, and the forces of the Islamic jihad, the Green - so named because the color green carries much symbolism in Islam, and most Muslim nations feature green in flags, emblems, and other identifiers. Its collective goal is to alter and undermine our national character, traditions, and laws so much that it can overthrow our Constitutional republican form of government without firing a shot.