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In the streets of London, Berlin, or Toronto, it’s common to see Western leftists marching under banners that say, “Refugees Welcome.” Their chants are loud, their intentions seem noble, and their message is clear: they want to defend the rights of those fleeing war, persecution, and dictatorship. However, if you dig deeper, a troubling contradiction appears. Many of these same activists openly support — or at least excuse — the very regimes that these refugees are escaping from.
They rally for the Iranian asylum seeker who fled solitary confinement and torture, but they admire the Iranian regime, calling it a brave anti-imperialist force. They advocate for Syrian refugees while celebrating Bashar al-Assad as a hero who stood against the West. They mourn the humanitarian crisis in Yemen but praise the Houthis as a resistance against colonialism.
The question is simple: How can you say you support refugees while also honouring the system that made them refugees?
This contradiction goes beyond political confusion; it is a moral failure. A person who has escaped Assad’s barrel bombs, the IRGC’s prisons, or the Houthis’ forced indoctrination is not looking for your ideological subtleties. They seek safety, dignity, and acknowledgment of their suffering — and they want recognition that their oppressors were indeed oppressors.
For many Western leftists, the lens through which they view global politics is not human rights, but a strict anti-Western stance. If a regime opposes the United States or NATO, it is often excused, regardless of the lives lost. This isn’t solidarity; it’s hypocrisy masquerading as activism.
Let’s be clear: defending refugees means opposing the violence that caused their displacement. You cannot pick and choose your outrage. You cannot offer sanctuary with one hand while praising tyranny with the other. This isn’t about supporting the West; it’s about being morally consistent. You don’t need to agree with American foreign policy to condemn Assad’s war crimes or Khamenei’s suppression of dissent.
A refugee is not just a symbol for your protests or an emotional tool to support your cause. This person is a human being whose life was shattered — often by the very regimes you romanticise. Every time you praise these governments, you undermine the stories of the victims you claim to defend.
This is one of the most disgraceful leftist mindsets. I call it: the racism of low expectations.
To all refugees: don’t be too quick to celebrate the fact that some Western leftists defend you — because deep down, they look down on you.
Take a simple example: these leftists who defend the hijab and celebrate the release of a “Hijabi Barbie” doll. Did they do that out of respect for you? Of course not. The company made it for profit. But the left cheered as if it were some great moral victory.
In the past, the Islamic narrative was that the hijab represents “modesty and virtue.” But once they realised the West doesn’t care for desert tribal values, they changed their rhetoric — with the help of the left. Suddenly, the hijab became a “symbol of freedom and self-determination.” And now? They say it represents “women’s empowerment.”
Really? A head-covering imposed by religious pressure is now empowerment? Who are they fooling?
And here’s the darker irony:
When a terrorist kills innocent people and openly declares in his will that he did it because the Qur’an and the Prophet commanded him, quoting verses and saying he wants to “break his fast with the Prophet in paradise”…
What do the leftists do?
They deny him his own motivation.
They say: no, you didn’t do this because of your religion… you’re a victim of Western society. You were marginalised, discriminated against, colonised. Maybe your job application got rejected. Maybe you tried to integrate and were turned away.
The leftist narrative is always ready-made: every Muslim or African is a victim by default.
But that’s the real racism.
They don’t see Muslims or Africans as responsible individuals. They see them as helpless beings who need to be protected — even if that person is a criminal or a terrorist.
Leftists love playing the role of the saviour. They carry a kind of collective “motherhood complex”: a need to protect someone — even if that someone is a killer.
Modern leftists have become the loudest defenders of the very forces they once claimed to fight: tyrants, theocrats, and religious fascists.
From Assad to Khamenei, from Hezbollah to Hamas, and even Al-Qaeda and the Houthis — the left has stood either silent or supportive.
In their blind hatred for the West, they’ve ended up hugging monsters.
Margaret Thatcher once said, “Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
The same applies here. The left’s attempt to balance victim advocacy with ideological excuses for authoritarianism is not noble — it’s cowardly. And the ones who pay the price are real people: refugees, women, victims of extremism.
So the next time you chant “Refugees Are Welcome Here,” ask yourself: Are you also ready to name and oppose the tyrants who created those refugees?
Until you do, your solidarity is selective, and your activism is empty.
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