Why Embrace Islamophilia and Islamo-Leftism?

by Guillaume Faye

This is an excerpt from Guillaume Faye’s final book Racial Civil War. Faye explains why leftist and communists love Islam. Through examining troubling trends in French society, Racial Civil War is a stark reminder of the challenges facing a divided multicultural Europe, urging Europeans to recognize the issue before it is too late.

What accounts for the fascination exerted by Islam upon all these people, these deep thinkers or often hateful anonymous activists who were shaped and breastfed by atheistic Marxism, as is the case with the viscerally anti-clerical Mélenchon, a great admirer of the Spanish Republic that slaughtered priests and nuns (with religion admittedly ‘the opium of the people’, yet no better than post-modernism)? Why are these eternally communistic dinosaurs and leftists that advocate libertarian or anarchist ideas so fascinated by Islam? Why do they all throw themselves into its arms and submit to it, especially when one considers how superstitious, obscurantist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, inegalitarian and pro-slavery Islam is?

Is it because this entire left-wing Islamosphere, with all its politicians and journalists, seeks to protect itself and secure some positions of its own in the event that the oh-so intimidating Muslims end up claiming more and more power in France, in accordance with a previously observed logic dating back to the era of collaboration and the Vichy regime? In part, yes, but this is not the only factor.

Is it due to ideological reasons, as is often said? Is it the result of the fact that Muslim immigrants are perceived as the new oppressed proletarians and have, in this regard, replaced our poor native working-class Frenchmen, who are considered to have betrayed the Left by supporting populistic, identitarian and therefore racist parties and movements? Once again, this is only partly the case, for it remains quite difficult for anyone to drive politicians and journalists — even the left-oriented ones amongst them — to acknowledge Muslim immigrants as the new wretched of the earth when the authorities have been granting them privileges, rights, aid and subsidies that others, namely our natives, have been deprived of.

Is it because, in the eyes of this priest-hating Left that harbours a particular abhorrence for our deep-rooted Catholic tradition and its festivals, calvaries, bells, and nativity scenes (all of which are in full recession these days), Islam comes across as a destructive force whose countless followers shall proceed to replace the despised Whites on both an ethnic and religious level? Partly, but not completely; for this fact alone can definitely not account for the entire state of affairs.

No, what particularly fascinates these dumbstruck Islamoleftists, these defrocked Trotskyists, these intellectuals nursed in the lap of cultural Marxism, these old communists or crypto-communists that still hold Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin in high regard and venerate Mao, Pol Pot, the violence of the Reign of Terror (1792–1793), the Paris Commune of 1871 and the crimes committed by the Spanish Republicans, is something consubstantial with Islam, something that they have in common with the latter and that is the focus of their deference and adoration — the tropism of fanatical violence and totalitarianism, which remain correlated and inseparable. That is what they have been missing since the disappearance of ‘genuine’ communism! And what Islam is now offering them is a similar dish, served bloody and on a silver platter.

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