that's why they scare the hell out of me. just when christianity was finally dying, stupid liberals went and imported millions of muslims, who have given the christian right a major shot in the arm and could very well save it from dying.
american leftists are clueless because they see everything through a filter of race, which nobody else in the world does. arabs and africans come to america and don't understand that they're supposed to be brown. democrats then get confused or pissed off when they don't act like descendants of slaves, like they're supposed to. they're "ungrateful" when they don't act like house niggers. i guess the democrats haven't really changed that much, have they?
but that's not my concern. it's not my problem, it's not my issue.
my concern is this influx of a new religious right, when we had just about done away with it, and having the foresight to identify it as a substantive political opponent, rather than fall into delusions around pretending it's going to be an ally. they're not allies, just because they're brown. they have brains and ideas, and they're an overwhelmingly conservative demographic that is going to help the right tremendously in the upcoming decades.
the fact that they don't like jews is a commonality, not a contradiction. it's worth remembering that hitler was aligned with the arabs, in an attempt to drive the jews out of the british mandate. hitler was a popular leader in the middle east. the nazis were not anti-muslim at all, but admired their militarism, in comparison to what they called the softness of christianity. this came out of an analysis on the decline of the first reich by a british historian that was influential on the nazis, named edward gibbon. it was thought in nazi circles that the roman empire (which they were trying to bring back) would not have fallen if it had converted to islam instead of held to christianity. these considerations are not very concerning to the likes of tucker carlson, but don't think that he doesn't realize that his own anti-semitism has deep roots in the arab-american community, or even in the so-called "pro-palestinian left". of course it does. he knows it. that's the fucking point.
an alliance between these groups makes sense, as they are both conservative fringe groups. as a secular atheist socialist that's tired of pretending i give a fuck about religious minorities, i'd be just as happy to leave them behind, let them find their tribe and move on.