A blunt CBN interview this week pulled back the curtain on what should alarm every patriot: Raj Nair sat down with former Muslim turned author Danny Burmawi to expose what they call an unholy alliance between Islamist movements and the radical left. The segment laid out a chilling premise — that two seemingly opposed camps are finding common ground around the same corrosive ends — and it aired on a platform millions of conservative Christians trust for fearless reporting.
Danny Burmawi is not a casual commentator; he writes from lived experience and is preparing a new book, Islam, Israel and the West, that promises a direct, insider critique of political Islam and its reach into Western institutions. Burmawi’s background as someone raised in the Middle East and his work documenting ideological networks give weight to his warnings, and he has been pitching the book as essential reading for anyone who still values Western liberty.
The core of Burmawi’s argument — echoed on CBN — is simple and savage: where the radical left seeks to dismantle national identity, faith-based institutions, and Western moral norms, Islamist groups seek to replace them with a political theology hostile to Western pluralism and to Israel. He argues this overlap of tactical and ideological incentives produces collaboration that looks like strange bedfellows but acts like an existential threat. Conservatives should stop treating this as mere academic talk; it’s a call to wake up.
Burmawi points to recent events, including the eruptions on Western streets after October 7, 2023, as proof that the narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become a vector for broader anti-Western sentiment. When Western institutions and campus movements pivot to absolve aggression and celebrate calls for Israel’s destruction, you see more than protest — you see an ideological alignment with enemies of liberty. That convergence is not accidental; it’s being consciously cultivated, he warns.
Let’s be candid: conservatives have been too timid for too long. While elected Republicans squabble over procedural fights, entire cultural and geopolitical fault lines are being redrawn under our feet. If activists who despise our values can find common cause with geopolitical foes of America and Israel, silence and “nuance” from the right are no longer acceptable responses — they’re complicity.
This is not a call to demonize ordinary believers or immigrants; it is a demand that leaders of both parties tell the truth about dangerous ideologies and act to protect our civilization. That means securing borders, rejecting the soft-on-evil rhetoric that excuses violence in the name of victimhood, and standing unapologetically with our allies who defend liberal democracy and religious freedom.
Americans who love freedom must insist on clarity and courage from their institutions: no more kowtowing to identity politics that excuses tyranny, no more pretending all ideas are equally harmless. If the left wants to ally itself with those who would overthrow the West, let them explain that choice to voters — and let conservatives organize to defend our heritage, our flag, and our friends abroad.
