Western Resistance: Radical Islam And The Left - Europe's Black Red Alliance - Part 2

In February 2002 former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher published an article entitled 'Islamism is the new Bolshevism'. In this, she wrote: 'Islamic extremism today, like bolshevism in the past, is an armed doctrine. It is an aggressive ideology promoted by fanatical, well-armed devotees. And, like communism, it requires an all-embracing long-term strategy to defeat it.'
Her analogy is both prescient and historically accurate. Many early Bolsheviks made common cause with Islam. The philosopher Bertrand Russell visited Russia in 1920. A year later, his impressions were published in a book, 'Theory and Practice of Bolshevism'. He wrote: 'Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world.'
Russell also observed: 'Bolshevism combines the characteristics of the French Revolution with those of the rise of Islam.' He was naively optimistic about Bolshevism in these years before Stalin's purges, noting also that: 'Marx has taught that Communism is fatally predestined to come about; this produces a state of mind not unlike that of the early successors of Mahommet.'

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