How jihadism and the far right have more in common than you'd think

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “This is what Muslims are facing everywhere in the world today, only by establishing a global caliphate and universally adopting sharia we can end our suffering.” open image in gallery Supports of the far-right English Defence League have held a growing number of demonstrations in the UK over the last few years The tales and arguments I found among far-right and Islamist extremists were strikingly similar; so similar that their apocalyptic predictions and utopian visions ended up being more complementary than contradictory. Islamist extremists discussed methods to galvanise “the grey-zone Muslims” for their causes; the extreme right strategized on how to best “redpill all normies”. Meanwhile, Islamist extremists argued that the “global persecution of Muslims” could only be solved by creating a religiously homogeneous society in the form of a caliphate. And Ibn Taymiyyah, one of Islamist extremists’ primary sources of inspiration, argued that justice is more important than religion and criticised those who “forget the good about others”.