I think the election of the Green Party candidate Mothin Ali in the Gipton and Harehills ward for Leeds City Council on Thursday 2nd May 2024 might be a useful date for future historians to debate whether this was the first opening shot of the Islamic Revolution in the United Kingdom.
Many revolutions that have gone on to have global impact have started in seemingly small and innocuous places, not least and most relevant the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that started in the small cities like Qom. Perhaps one day we might see a statue commemorating the 2024 Revolution somewhere rather fetching such as the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Harehills.
What resonates with that revolution is the alignment of the Green Party and the Islamists. Most people might consider that the Green Party would be generally concerned with environmental policies and although most people have always considered it quite left wing, over the last 10 years they have steadily become more extreme, now galloping towards Marxism and calling for zero economic growth while firmly hitching themselves to the trans ideology band wagon.
Their latest recruit to the party, Mothin Ali (see his Green Party page here, I think this is what they call 'Green-washing'), demonstrates that are willing to welcome anyone as long as they can bring enough votes to ensure further additions to their now 812 elected councillors. It may not seem important for the general election but this is a party gaining political power at a grass routes level.
Upon winning the seat Mr Ali shouted: “We will not be silenced. We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine. Allahu Akbar!” while standing in front of a Palestinian flag while wearing what looked like a badly fitting Moss Brothers blazer covering a set of pyjamas and congratulated by a group of men in dire need of a beard trimming kit.
I always thought that remit of a local councillor is to ensure that the bins are collected on time or deciding who gets an allotment, not to 'to raise the voice of Gaza'. I doubt every much Benjamin Netanyahu will call off the invasion of Rafa because of the demented demands of a Leeds councillor. However, it is yet another small power grab from the Islamists who have convinced the gullible, the brain-washed and the extremists within that community to elect yet another member to a position of authority.
This brings me to the point of the article. This is not the first appearance of a 'Collation of Chaos' as its being called between the extreme left and the extreme right of Islamism.
During the Iranian Revolution, a complex and often uneasy collaboration existed between the Islamist factions led by Ayatollah Khomeini and various leftist groups, including the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) and other Marxist guerrillas. This alliance was primarily tactical and aimed at overthrowing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whose regime was viewed as oppressive and overly influenced by Western powers (on that count they weren't wrong).
Khomeini's strategy involved unifying diverse opposition groups against the Shah, despite significant ideological differences. He focused on socio-economic issues such as corruption and inequality under the Shah’s regime to maintain unity among these groups. Khomeini and other clerics subtly sidelined their ultimate goal of establishing a theocratic government to avoid alienating secular and leftist factions who were essential to the revolutionary cause.
Communist groups, notably the Tudeh Party and Fedaian guerrillas, had been significantly weakened by government repression. However, they played a crucial role in the events leading to the Shah's overthrow, delivering the regime its coup de grace.
After the 1979 revolution in Iran and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, from 1981 to 1985, approximately 8,000 opponents of the Khomeini regime were executed and this included the very same members of the leftist groups that had helped bring them to power. The new Islamic government targeted these groups as part of its consolidation of power and to assert the dominance of the theocratic government. Thus the Islamic Republic of Iran was born and remains to this day.
We are seeing this again in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. However, I feel that it is more advanced in the UK than anywhere else due to the length of time the Muslim population has been here and therefore the more opportunities the Islamists have been allowed to have to infiltrate the institutions of Government and law enforcement, build Islamic infrastructure such as Mosques and faith schools and indoctrinate their children with the principles of segregation, intolerance and the dominance of their religion over the freedom of other citizens.
'Useful idiots' is how Yasmine Mohammed describes those on the left making an alliance of convenience with these Islamic extremists. Check out the excellent podcast on Andrew Gold's Heretics here.
I think we are sleep-walking into a very serious situation with this alliance. The Islamist are growing in power and influence. I suspect that Mr Ali here has had a jolly good talking to from his bosses and we won't see these sort of displays on their route to power again until they have actually secured it.
What I am astounded by is the naivety of the left - new liberals, the old left wing, the LBGTQAI, the protesters, the Just Stop Oil brigade, the Greens, the Free Palestine Students and even good old fashioned, card carrying Labour supporters, marching side-by-side with the Islamists. They really have no idea just how quickly and how viciously these Islamists will turn on them if they succeed in their aim of overthrowing our democracy.
I will sign off with the old Winston Churchill cliche; “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
And Iran today
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