Imagine, for a moment, that you are an affluent American journalist or influencer invited to Qatar. You’re flown first class, greeted at a palatial terminal with chilled towels and dates, then ushered into a glittering hotel where marble glows like honey under chandeliers. Later, you’re granted an exclusive interview with the Emir himself.
Perhaps, on another trip, you find yourself on the Turkish Mediterranean coast, basking in the lavish hospitality of a resort owned by allies of the ruling AKP. You dine under the stars, sip strong coffee, and listen as your hosts tell you they oppose the moral decadence of the West, that they stand for family values, that they too distrust the global elite. It all sounds so familiar—almost comforting. You nod, you smile, and you begin to imagine that perhaps you are on the same side after all.
And then, slowly, the mask slips. You realize that to remain in their good graces, all you need to do is repeat a few vicious antisemitic tropes, denounce the alliance between the United States and Israel, and flatter the enemies of the West. That is the exchange rate.
What we are now witnessing in certain online circles is nothing short of moral collapse disguised as intellectual rebellion. Most of these self-styled “truth tellers” are ignorant at best and often largely malicious. They inhabit a spiritual wasteland of post-Christian nihilism, detached from the moral and philosophical architecture that once defined Western civilization.
Let’s assume, for generosity’s sake, that they are ignorant of Scripture, philosophy, history, and basic geopolitical realities. Even so, their infatuation with Islamist regimes—the very forces that oppose everything the West has ever stood for: freedom, reason, conscience, and the dignity of the individual—is indefensible.
Why, then, are so many young men falling for this grotesque charade? The answer lies, at least in part, in despair. Young people today have lower expectations of the future than their parents. They sense decline but can’t locate its cause, so they reach for grand conspiracies and moral scapegoats to rationalize their disillusionment.
Instead of confronting the real issues—housing, productivity, education, liberty, and the technological challenges of this century—they retreat into echo chambers run by charlatans. These charlatans, driven by perverse incentives, invent ever more deranged theories to feed the algorithmic beast—blaming rather than explaining, scapegoating rather than analyzing, and offering resentment instead of responsibility.
Our educational system bears much of the blame. Having abandoned the transmission of civic values, historical literacy, and moral reasoning, it has produced a generation unequipped to recognize manipulation or resist ideological infection. Into this vacuum steps a toxic subculture that calls itself “Groyperism.” It masquerades as a restoration of conservatism but in truth represents nothing more than a carnival of paranoia and prejudice.
I refuse to call it conservative at all. It is an ideological parasite feeding on the corpse of genuine conservatism—replacing moral clarity with cynicism and civic virtue with antisemitic bile.
Its danger is not merely rhetorical. Before it collapses under its own absurdities, it may poison countless minds and corrode the very institutions it claims to defend. It is, in every sense, a national security concern. Hostile powers—Islamist regimes chief among them—have already conquered much of the Western left. They now seek to infiltrate the right, exploiting the disillusionment of the young and the disorientation of the faithful.
In his conversation with Dinesh D’Souza, Imam Tawhidi aptly noted that Islamists support the left not out of shared values but because the left’s moral relativism makes it suicidally naïve. Yet when they sense the right has lost its moral compass, they waste no time in attempting to subvert that as well.
What pains me most is that these nefarious forces are now attempting to hollow out the conservative movement from within. They poison discourse, normalize hatred, and glorify monsters. The sudden resurgence of admiration for Hitler, Stalin, and various Islamist tyrants is no accident. It is a deliberate psychological operation aimed at the naïve.
Islamism is an expansionist ideology that seeks not dialogue but domination. Its goal is global governance under theocratic rule—subjugating not only non-Muslims but also secular Muslims who resist its tyranny. Historically, non-Muslim communities under Islamic empires lived under the humiliation of dhimmitude, paying the jizya tax for the privilege of survival. Nothing in the ideological DNA of Islamism has changed since then; only its methods of propaganda have evolved.
Now, through social media, bad actors amplify seductive lies about “Muslim prosperity” and “Islamic freedom”—narratives so absurd they would be comical if they weren’t so dangerous. We have more than enough empirical evidence of what happens when Islamists seize power: Iran’s theocracy, Hamas’s rule in Gaza, and the radicalization of urban centers across Western Europe. Those who attempt to gaslight reality will soon collide with it.
None of this is a call for hostility toward Muslim nations as a whole. Indeed, the Trump Administration pursued an intelligent and disciplined realpolitik—engaging Turkey, Qatar, and even Syria to prevent deeper hostility and to keep China and Russia from filling the strategic vacuum. Engagement, yes—but without delusion or moral surrender.
Understanding the nature of hostile ideology is not bigotry. It is prudence—the first step in self-preservation. Groyperism blinds us to this reality by feeding on the cheapest human impulses: envy, hatred, ignorance. In doing so, it renders itself morally and intellectually bankrupt.
If we are to preserve the moral core of the West—its faith, its freedom, its reason—we must reject both the nihilistic left and the parasitic pseudo-right that mirror each other in their contempt for truth. The challenge is immense, but so too is the opportunity to reclaim clarity, decency, and the courage to call evil by its name.
Groyperism will inevitably collapse into the oblivion of its own emptiness. Our task is to ensure it doesn’t drag our civilization down with it.
Ziya H. is a Contributor for Liberty Affair. Based in Warsaw, Poland, he writes about geopolitics, culture, and technology. Follow his latest insights on X: @hsnlizi.
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