{"id":7692,"date":"2022-12-14T17:37:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:38:02","slug":"spain-an-islamist-leftist-alliance-in-catalonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2022\/12\/14\/spain-an-islamist-leftist-alliance-in-catalonia\/","title":{"rendered":"An Islamist-Leftist Alliance Threatens Freedoms in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2022\/12\/14\/spain-an-islamist-leftist-alliance-in-catalonia\/spain-badaoui\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7693\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/spain-badaoui.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/spain-badaoui.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/spain-badaoui-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The deportation of an influential Salafist has cast a renewed spotlight the insidious alliance between Islamists and Leftists in Spain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>An Islamist-Leftist Alliance Threatens Freedoms in Spain<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/an-islamist-leftist-alliance-threatens-freedoms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle East Forum<\/a> | December 14, 2022<\/p>\n<p>One of the most influential Salafists in Spain has been deported to Morocco after Spanish authorities accused him of promoting Islamic separatism and of being a national security risk. The expulsion, vociferously opposed by \u201cwoke\u201d activist groups and vote-seeking politicians, has cast a renewed spotlight on the insidious alliance between Islamists and Leftists in Spain who shamelessly exploit each other to achieve their political goals. It has also shed new light on how Islamists are taking advantage of pre-existing divisions in the societies they seek to influence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islamism.news\/2022\/12\/14\/an-islamist-leftist-alliance-threatens-freedoms-in-catalonia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deportation of an influential Salafist has cast a renewed spotlight the insidious alliance between Islamists and Leftists in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,109],"tags":[181,66,177],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","category-spain-islam-in-europe","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-salafists","tag-spain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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