‘I’m A Culturalist’: Comedy Legend Rejects ‘Racist’ Label, Rips Mass Muslim Immigration

Comedy legend John Cleese went scorched earth on the mass immigration — particularly of Muslims — in Britain, declaring via X that he is not “a racist,” but rather “a culturalist.”

Cleese, a regular critic of President Donald Trump, has recently thrown his weight behind Restore Britain, an emerging right-wing party that is focused on addressing the impact of “mass immigration, economic collapse, woke ideology, and the relentless creep of radical Islam.”

The “Monty Python” alum responded to a poll asking whether he was best described as a “true British patriot” or a “racist who hate[s] Muslims” — and he said that the problem was not with any race, but with cultures that were incompatible with Western values.

I’m not a racist. I’m a culturalist

I believe some cultures are superior to others

For example, I prefer cultures that do not encourage wife beating, paedophilia, clitorectomies, stoning and constant inflation of the male ego

I am also aware of the difference between… https://t.co/WNCRrzQvZi

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) July 30, 2026

“I’m not a racist. I’m a culturalist,” Cleese declared. “I believe some cultures are superior to others.”

“For example, I prefer cultures that do not encourage wife beating, paedophilia, clitorectomies, stoning and constant inflation of the male ego,” he added.

“I am also aware of the difference between Islamoscepticism and Islamophobia,” he continued. “Notice that hate does not come into this — only moral preferences.”

On Thursday, Cleese reposted a clip on X from GB News in which Britain’s Defense Secretary Wes Streeting admitted that there was no way for him to guarantee that known terrorists had not already entered Britain via small boats crossing the English Channel.

????Defence Secretary Wes Streeting cannot guarantee that terrorists haven’t already arrived on small boats.

“That’s a no, you can’t guarantee it then.”

The government has no idea who’s coming in.

And they still refuse to stop the boats. pic.twitter.com/E9tLMJX0IH

— Don Keith (@RealDonKeith) July 30, 2026

On Friday, Cleese reposted an X post about the invasion of thousands of military-aged Moroccan men breaching the border into Spain — and a news clip of a British presenter downplaying the sudden surge, insisting that “invasion” was not the right word to describe it.

“I don’t know what is more terrifying, the footage of tens of thousands of fighting age Muslim men invading Europe, or our own government denying that it’s an invasion,” the post read.

I don’t know what is more terrifying, the footage of tens of thousands of fighting age Muslim men invading Europe, or our own government denying that it’s an invasion. pic.twitter.com/v10qGsS4No

— Venice Allan (@roseveniceallan) July 31, 2026