Pete North: Islamic Extremism Has Joined Forces With the Far Left

Islamic extremism has joined forces with the far left and represents a greater threat to the UK than the “phantom” far right, commentator and writer Pete North has said. Speaking to NTD’s Lee Hall for the “British Thought Leaders” programme, Mr. North, who runs the Northern Variant account on social media platform X, said that the “real” far right extremism in the UK is coming from Islamism. “What we’ve actually seen is, the real far right in this country is Islamic extremism,” Mr. North said, alluding to the “horseshoe theory” where political extremes meet in the middle. “They’re anti gay, anti-Jewish. The things that Muslim extremists and the far right believe in, there’s quite a lot of crossover. So the real far right in this country is the Islamist threat in this country,” he said....