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April 22, 2009

'Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?'

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Cliff May posits the big question:

Ask those on the Left what values they champion, and they will say equality, tolerance, women's rights, gay rights, workers' rights, and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all that, not infrequently through the application of lethal force. So how does one explain the burgeoning Left-Islamist alliance?

Could it be as Jamie Glazov writes in his new book United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror that Cliff addresses in his piece - that the Left's "romance with Islamism is just a logical continuation of the long leftist tradition of worshipping America's foes (and Marxism)?

[...] The Left clearly continues to be inspired by its undying Marxist conviction that capitalism is evil and that forces of revolution are rising to overthrow it -- and must be supported." On that basis, militant Islamism is regarded as a "valiant form of 'resistance' against American imperialism and oppression."

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If this seems to have the ring of familiarity, it should. It's the kind of thinking that we've seen come to prominence along with the election of Barack Hussein Obama..

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