That is true on both sides of the Atlantic. What is not clear is what Shahrar Ali is proposing be done about it. Since he is being written up in a laudatory manner in the Daily Mail, it is likely that he represents himself as adhering to “moderate,” non-political Islam. Whether or not he does this, actually, Britain has staked its future on the proposition that moderate, non-political Islam is the dominant mainstream in Muslim communities worldwide, and will win out in Britain over the “extremists.” In this, British authorities are in for a rude shock.
“‘The far-Left are clueless about the scale of the threat. They’re useful idiots’: Muslim former Green Party deputy leader warns Islamist subversion in our society is a danger to us all,” by Imogen Garfinkel, Daily Mail, October 24, 2026:
The former deputy leader of the Green Party has warned that the far-Left are ‘clueless’ about the scale of the threat that Islamist ideology poses to society.
Dr Shahrar Ali, who was deputy leader between 2014 and 2016, spoke to the Daily Mail following the passing of a resolution in the European Parliament pledging to combat Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network across the continent.
The resolution, proposed by the European People’s Party (EPP), was adopted by 381 votes to 167, with 15 abstentions.
‘It is notable that certain sections of the Left opposed this resolution,’ Dr Ali said. ‘They betray not only reprehensible cluelessness about the scale of the threat but that they have become the new useful idiots.’
The resolution calls for entities and individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to be put on the EU list of terrorist organisations, and for the establishment of a national list of hate preachers at EU level.
It distinguished between political Islam and Islam as a religion, which ‘is not inherently political or hostile’, adding that ‘the overwhelming majority of those who observe Islam as a religion reject violence against civilians in the name of Islam’.
The strategy of Islamist entryism, however, relies ‘on the organised confusion between Islam as a religion, which falls under freedom of conscience, and political Islam as a societal project, which seeks to produce collective norms, derogatory regimes or community allegiances placed above common law’….
Joe1 says
All Muslims honor the Quran. Within a few sentences on the first page of the Quran is the phrase, “Don’t be friends with the unbeliever.” That is not religion, it is warlord mentality that Uthman put in the Quran. It means that the only good enemy is a dead enemy. Something similar is on every page of the Quran. The only explanation is that Uthman diligently and adamantly put it on every page. Anyone who honors the Quran as it is currently written, subscribes to this.
Huh!?! says
A Muslim blowing smoke. The UK is allowing itself to be conned. I wonder how long it will be before the UK falls into civil war.
John Pepple says
He’s right about leftists being clueless. They are “chickens for KFC.” They imagine that Muslims are on their side, while Muslims know that leftists are just useful idiots who will help them gain power and who can then be easily eliminated.
John Smith says
muslims are muslims, their goals are exactly the same. The only difference between a moderate muslim and a radical muslim is this. The moderate muslims don’t want to murder us, in all fairness to them they don’t. They just wont the radical muslims to murder us, and that is the only difference.