I never got the alliance between radical Islamists and communist it makes absolutely no sense fun little fact after the Iranian revolution all of the left wingers were shocked it was actually a great BBC interview and documentary about the subject but the guy who made it's not allowed to work for the BBC anymore because you would make documentaries mocking the state of Israel
I think it can be explained by the advent of third worldism and the "non-aligned" movement, with China seeking to engage in its own series of proxy wars against the Soviet Union and America. Remember, China funded parts of the mujahideen, and not even just the Maoist rebels within Afghanistan. Regarding Iran, China supported both the Shah and the people who overthrew the Shah (China is an incredibly cynical and self-interested country). They provided military and financial support to Cambodia against the Vietnamese, even going as far as to invade Vietnam. "Liberation Theology" was a natural extension of the support for "National Liberation" and "Socialist Patriotism" movements.
Deng presented Swcc and the Chinese ideological line following Mao as a continuation of Marxism=Leninism Mao Zhedong Thought, in which he explicitly says that China will always be a third world country. The Chinese party still continues to claim that it operates under similar principles, and Xi has taken efforts to invest heavily into the islamic world in order to combat America by establishing relations with local powers (The SIlk and Belt Road intiative, etc.). Muslims who are ideologically aligned with China and the new East Bloc downplay the treatment of Uiyghurs and Islam within China, and interpret what is basically China imperializing Africa and the Middle East as liberation from NATO imperialism and Zionism.
In America, Black Nationalism and the BPP in America were heavily influenced by Maoism, as Maoism was really the main generating force for communist ideology in the 70s. The academic left in the west split from Maoism and turned to postmodernism and neoliberalism in France during shit like the student protests, while in Anglo countries Trotskyists had turned to neoconservatism.
Then, of course, you have the Soviet line on Marxism-Leninism, which had its own prescriptions for how communism needed to be advanced on a global scale. To this day you'll see faggots in leftist spaces larping and idolizing Enver Hoxha.
This shit is really quite baroque, and leftists are infamous for sectarianism. There are splits within and between different communist ideologies, and splits within those splits. An exacting summary of any of it will always be incomplete or confused, because the movements themselves are often mediated by geopolitical interests and other complicating factories, aside from the ideology itself being fairly arcane. Marxism makes a number of simple descriptive claims, but it quickly becomes more and more complicated as it is fleshed out, and was championed by a class of petite-bourgeois intellectuals who had a completely different understanding of it than some poor fucking peasant.
I've described how Islam might integrate into things like Maoism, Chinese Communism more generally, or Marxism-Leninism, but there is also the reality of a kind of westernized Islam which is progressive and admittedly not very true to Islam. Second or third generation muslim immigrants in Europe latch onto social progressive movements, go to the same unviersities as everyone else, and so commit to a perspective which is obviously confused and self-contradictory. They are likely what is going to be represented within breadtube, and are essentially just shitlibs. Plenty of hypocrisy to go around.