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Karl
The Libertarians ARE far right. Far right is small government to protect your rights and property. Far left is massive government and no private property and the government rules your life entirely.
So if a Muslim is a far right nationalist born and living in Arabia trying to keep out invading infidels, is that a bad thing?
My friend you are simply unaware of politics and the differences between political ideologies.
Libertarianism is not the same thing as Far-Right populism. There are crucial differences:
Libertarians are favorable towards free trade and immigration.
Far-Right nationalists oppose free trade and immigration.
Libertarians want freedom of religion and protection of people’s civil rights and liberties.
Far-Right nationalists want to restrict the civil liberties of Muslims to practice our religion.
Now I believe you are from the U.K., where libertarianism, for historical reasons, is very weak and not that well established in the political mainstream.
But here in America, libertarianism is stronger, and represented by people like Ron Paul (now his son Rand Paul), Gary Johnson, and others.
U.K. has less guarantee of people’s civil liberties, for example, the recent legislation proposed to expand surveillance. Libertarianism, however, is all about protecting privacy rights and limiting the role and power of government. In the U.K. and much of Europe, government is too big and the State has too much power, which usually results in less individual rights and liberties for the individual.
Muslims in Europe have not been exposed to libertarian ideas, coupled with the fact that they often come from Muslim countries where authoritarianism is so rampant. Therefore, they never consider the benefits of libertarianism and are oblivious to it. But anyone with an acute political mind knows that libertarianism is the most favorable politics as far as the Muslim community’s interests are concerned.
Now your second question is quite bizarre. We are not living in Arabia nor are infidels “invading” Arabia, so that is a completely hypothetical scenario. I am saying that libertarianism is beneficial to Muslims living in the West, that is not a universal approval of it, it is a restricted approval in a certain context, i.e., Muslim living in the West where we are a vulnerable minority who have separate interests from the rest of society.