John Cleese, who is an unabashed MAGA-hater and a former supporter of the Labour Party, is coming out swinging against the Islamization of the UK and the feeble, gaslighting defenses the transnationalists have made of Muslims in the UK. 

It's kinda fascinating, as someone who has followed Cleese for quite a while now, despite his left-leaning rants. I've respected his talent and, yes, his erudition, and have become a big fan of Monty Python's weird style of humor. 

But what makes Cleese interesting to me is that he is one of the dying breed of older-style liberals around whom I grew up. Educated people who wanted to build upon a foundation of Western values while dragging society along a path they believed to be kinder, fairer, and more inclusive. 

Sometimes I agreed with them; often I didn't, especially on economic issues, but I found them interesting people. 

As I am a Islamosceptic, I'm now worried that the
Labour government may categorise me as a terrorist

To think I once supported them... https://t.co/pGISPibvwn

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 17, 2026

Cleese is exactly where you would expect him to be on most issues, but he is getting red-pilled, too, and nothing has gotten more under his skin than the gaslighting on Islam. 

John Cleese tears into BBC over Iran 'bias' row as actor fumes he's 'ashamed' of broadcaster: 'Doesn't want to offend Islamists!'https://t.co/Fm4NTUnU8B

— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 8, 2026

If you take a lazy stroll down the X feed of Mr. Cleese, you can't avoid the fact that he is a man who time left behind, and not in a way that makes you think that time was right to do so. You find pretty much three topics of late: how awful Trump is, how much he hates Russia and Putin, and how appalled he is about the growing influence of Islam on his beloved country. 

'Obey us or die'

It doesn't sound like the first move in an attempt to assimilate https://t.co/K8OTLI3c25

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 18, 2026

Cleese is a quintessential Brit. He was not of the upper classes himself, but spent his life among them as a prep school kid who learned the classics in the original, attended Cambridge, and then spent his life both mocking and living among the English mid to upper classes. His economic populism likely stems from his working-class background, but the fact that he is steeped in, and sometimes ironically appreciates, higher culture comes through. 

This great scene from The Holy Grail captured the absurdity of the class system, and the absurdity of those who spend their lives fighting it and making that their only goal in life:

King Arthur, his legend, and the political system he represents is absurd. But then again, so are the Marxists, who are on top of everything else, dirty barbarians dedicated to tearing things down. 

For all his discomfort with the class-bound side of Britain, his disdain for Islam and the elite's accommodation of barbarity shines through. 

Not much about integration here... https://t.co/SWZtFPQc1E

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 18, 2026

I see his transformation into something of a culture warrior as similar to Richard Dawkins'. An initial reluctance to break with the elite consensus transforms into a seething rage at the betrayal of all that is good and holy by an elite that will, quite literally, sacrifice children to satisfy the carnal desires of foreign invaders. 

It seems to me that this kind of fundamentalist Muslim could never compromise

So is there any point in trying to negotiate with them https://t.co/o5YF7Egu1M

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) January 23, 2026

The problem with being a liberal these days is that modern liberalism is fundamentally illiberal, in the classical sense, and has become anti-Western. It seems to revel in wallowing around in the dirt, attacking anybody who objects, and kowtowing to any random barbarian who wants to rape young girls. 

The Muslims have been very good at building up their power base, and using it to influence government
decisions

This has been achieved by quite staggering moral cowardice on the part of people who are supposed to
represent the whole population https://t.co/L40qIeNtqT

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 18, 2026

The transnational elite considers itself oh-so-sophisticated, but it seems absolutely determined to turn the Western world into a haven for the morally degenerate, be they Muslim barbarians (and I still insist that not all Muslims are barbarians, whatever you say!), or sexual deviants who are native to our degenerating culture. 

This is absurd

How could a Jew walk into a mosque to vote in a British election, without feeling trepidation

Some people fail to remember that assimilation depends on both side making concessions. If one side makes all the concessions, and the other makes none at all, it's not… https://t.co/IJJkjMtdDh

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 18, 2026

Cleese, for all his prejudices against the cloddish American president and his knuckle-dragging followers, is able to identify the absurdity of the "tolerance" for rape gangs and the imposition of Sharia law. It is insane, and he is willing to say it. 

I'm clearly a terrorist, so I'm afraid they are going to have to arrest me https://t.co/pRJhijQond

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 17, 2026

It's fascinating to see liberals like Cleese, Dawkins, and JK Rowling getting red pilled. Unlike many liberals who have seen the light, they are not willing to jump over to our side, but...so what? You can't have everything, and I am fine with people disagreeing with me on policy. If we can unite on the culture war issues, that's good enough for me. 

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