I noted the contradiction the other day between the Corbynite hard-left and the Islamists in the new "Your Party". Janice Turner in the Times today calls it the Crescent-Rainbow alliance:
The left excuses conservative Muslims from observing secular norms in all areas but one. It’s not women’s rights: Afghanistan’s gender apartheid or Iran hanging feminists for refusing the hijab are never mentioned, let alone northern grooming gangs. It’s not antisemitism: duh, as if! It’s not gay rights: they overlook the homophobic violence Queers for Palestine marchers would face if they showed up in Gaza. No, it is the issue which overrides all others: trans rights.
Corbyn now sits in parliament with four independent Muslim MPs, one of whom, Blackburn’s Adnan Hussain, posted on X that “women’s rights and safe spaces should not be encroached upon”. This modest remark brought a mighty outcry, with young Corbynistas calling on Sultana — an avid trans activist — to denounce him. Then Ali weighed in, comparing Hussain’s critics to Nigel Farage. Cue Green Rainbow rage.
Gender politics, like asbestos, eventually destroys everyone who touches it, from Nicola Sturgeon to Kamala Harris. For the Rainbows, trans ideology is a religious belief as heartfelt as the Crescents’ Islam. If Muslims in Your Party or the Greens won’t endorse trans-identifying males entering women’s changing rooms, the alliance cannot hold….
Trans rights vs. Islam. Hmm. It's astonishing the enthusiasm with which the hard left will embrace any ideology that opposes liberal democracy, but, as Iran showed after the fall of the shah, there's can only be one winner here.
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