Socialism is on the ballot in America this Fall. And beneath this Marxist current is a shocking embrace of radical Islam.
How could this be in the land of the free and the home of the brave—the Judeo-Christian nation built on free markets and religious liberty?
In many respects, Americans have been asleep at the wheel and it’s time to wake up to the unholy alliance that’s arrived on our doorstep. The first step is understanding the two ideologies behind the labels and the unholy alliance they have made in pursuit of our destruction.
The Unholy Alliance
In 2002, French sociologist Pierre-André Taguieff coined the term Islamo-gauchisme (“Islamo-leftism”) in his book La Nouvelle Judéophobie to describe alliances between parts of the far left and Islamist currents.
In the years that followed, particularly in the wake of 9/11, other scholars started using the phrase “the Red-Green Alliance”, referring to the reds, the socialists, and the greens, political Islamists. (Not to be confused with the term “red-green coalition,” which refers to European alliances between socialist parties and environmentalist Green parties.)
The marriage between socialism and political Islam is an insidious strategic coalition. The two movements have virtually nothing in common except for who they are against and who they ultimately reject (the Judeo-Christian God). A hard-left candidate runs against Israel, a Muslim-heavy district turns out, and a party built on gender ideology and open borders ends up arm-in-arm with a movement with which it has little in common.
It’s worse than a political coalition. It’s an unholy alliance and it’s on America’s doorstep.
From Tehran to Paris
Islamo-leftism or the Red-Green Alliance has caused revolution, chaos, and political upsets.
One of the most prominent was the Iranian Revolution of the late 1970s. Marxists in Iran, including the communist Tudeh Party, threw their support behind the revolutionary movement led by Khomeini in the effort to overthrow the Shah. Within a few years the new Islamic Republic had banned their party, jailed their leaders, and executed thousands of leftists. Yet the French postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault became one of the revolution’s most prominent Western sympathizers, praising it as a form of “political spirituality” that offered an alternative to Western modernity.
In 2003, Trotskyist and Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated activists joined together to organize a London protest march against the Iraq War. Two years later, George Galloway was elected to Parliament with the Respect party, formed by the Socialist Workers Party and Muslim Association of Britain activists. In 2024, Galloway won again in Rochdale on a campaign focused on Gaza.
In France, leaders of the far-left La France Insoumise joined a controversial 2019 march against Islamophobia, alongside organizations accused of ties to political Islam. One of those organizations, the Collective against Islamophobia in France, was later dissolved by the French government in 2020 following the murder of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, with the government citing the group’s links to radical Islamist figures and organizations and its rhetoric surrounding Islamist terrorism.
Even today, Paris is on fire. What began in September of 2026 as high schoolers protesting crumbling classrooms has exploded into nationwide unrest, with half a million people in the streets, some carrying Islamic and communist flags. French intelligence says it was a maneuver organized by La France Insoumise, the same party that marched in 2019, and its far-left allies. While the party denies it, the country burns.
Coming to America
What started in Europe has crossed the Atlantic. It’s like we’re reading the same book, just a few chapters behind.
One of the most consequential forces inside the Democratic Party in this midterm is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Just this year, the DSA announced they have more than 120,000 members, making them the largest socialist organization in American history, bigger even than the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs at its peak in 1912.
DSA-backed candidates are running for Congress, state legislatures, and city councils across the country, and more than 250 DSA members now hold elected office, including mayors and county executives.
Socialism is no longer just Bernie Sanders and college radicals. It has built an organized political infrastructure, and one of its most visible alliances is with Muslim-American and pro-Palestinian political activism, particularly around Israel and Gaza. DSA chapters, elected officials, and allied activists have repeatedly worked alongside Muslim advocacy groups and pro-Palestinian organizations opposed to American support for Israel.
The coalition is increasingly visible in electoral politics: Rashida Tlaib, a member of the DSA and the only Palestinian American in Congress; Zohran Mamdani, now governing New York City and integrating his own Shia theological language into his political rhetoric; Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan who, if elected, would become the first Muslim U.S. senator, buoyed by a coalition of DSA allies and Muslim-American organizers in Michigan.
Now it’s important to note that not all American Muslim voters are a part of this alliance, and most candidates on your ballot aren’t Islamists themselves—that caveat matters. But this isn’t a fringe current at the edges of the Democratic Party, either; in fact, it’s being embraced by Democrat party leaders and mega-donors alike. Senior Democratic figures are supporting El-Sayed as the party’s Senate nominee; Kamala Harris campaigned with him in Detroit. Ideas and coalitions once confined to the activist left are increasingly operating within mainstream Democratic politics.
Same Lie, Different Clothes: What God’s Word Tells Us
Revolutionary socialism is outwardly atheistic, materialist, and hostile to religious authority, while political Islamism is built on strict religious law. On paper they should repel each other. In practice, they keep finding each other—generation after generation, continent after continent.
They find each other because they’re the same lie, dressed up in different clothes.
Both make a total claim on the person. Both remove the boundaries between what belongs to the state and what belongs to conscience. Whether it’s the state or the caliphate, it wants the final word.
When Jesus says to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s, he is drawing a distinct line between government and everything else. That line upends the myth of totalitarianism. Government answers to God. It doesn’t replace him. Genesis establishes human dignity in God’s image, not in service to the collective or submission to religious-political law.
Every attempt to erase the line drawn by God’s Word—whether it wears red or green—achieves the same end: less room for conscience, not more. Do you want to restrict that conscience—God-given or God-ordained? The government is a minister of God for good, not a vehicle for revolutionary cleansing (Rom. 13). The poor are not an interest group to be mobilized against the image of God in the Jew or the unborn or the church. Scripture’s response to a politics that rebrands Hamas’s terror as compassionate anti-colonial resistance is: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Isa. 5:20).
We know that living within God’s design brings about human flourishing. It is only logical that a coalition built on common enemies instead of a common truth is built upon instability. As such, history would suggest the partner with the clearer sense of what it ultimately wants is the one still standing once the alliance has served its purpose. After the unholy alliance ravages the West, its factions will tear each other apart.
What This Means Before November
What makes this moment so dark is that two false gospels have shaken hands. Although they don’t agree on much (not religion, sexuality, family, nor the nature of society itself), they do agree on the destruction of the Christian West, of Israel, of a public square that gives honor to God and to conscience.
This unholy alliance can be stopped. But only if the West wakes up.
Scripture calls believers to test what spirit is behind a movement, not just what a candidate says behind a podium (1 John 4:1). This November, that means doing your research and then sounding the alarm. Most Americans have not heard of the Red-Green alliance. Most Americans don’t know what the Democratic Socialists of America are about or who they’ve chosen to align with. Tell them. Show them what happened in Iran, in Britain, in France, and ask them if they want America to be the next chapter.
The choice is up to us.
