At bottom, the Red-Green alliance stems from an accidental but deeply unfortunate association between religious faith and skin color. Most Muslims in Europe are immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East, and therefore happen to have darker complexions. Nothing has warped the minds of progressives more than this stupid accident of history. Out of colonial guilt and a misguided notion of “respect”, all kinds of evils are condoned. After all, who wants to be seen targeting an ethnic minority? Islamists have learned to exploit this fear of racism relentlessly, using it as a protective shield behind which to propagate their noxious ideology with impunity. To make matters worse, genuine racists hide behind the cloak of Enlightenment values to make themselves appear more respectable. Because so few progressives have dared to criticize Islam, for fear of being branded racists, the far right has been free to monopolize the field. The result is a self-fulfilling prophecy: criticism of Islam is increasingly left to those who have no qualms about racism at all, because they are racists themselves. But religions are not races, and ideas have no skin color. If we should be grateful to the white converts to Islam who joined the ranks of ISIS for anything, it is that they inadvertently exposed the absurdity of conflating Islam with ethnicity. Radical Islam has nothing to do with skin color. Anyone can embrace despicable ideas.