A Symbiotic and Dangerous Tryst: Islam and the Left

I have been playing around with different templates and when switching back to this one, I lost the ability to display the comments left on the “About Sassy” page. Thus, G. Singer’s comment was buried, my apologies,  but I do want to respond to it.
G.Singer

Sass: you make the mistake of equating ‘lefty’, ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’, or whatever, with being cozy with Islam. I freely admit that most of my family and friends are progressive, Dem-voting left-leaners. And every one of us supports Israel to the fullest, despises the Islamofascist crap taking over parts of the world, and supports justified wars like the one in Afghanistan. I feel the same anger you feel about Obama whenever another of our great servicemen or women dies in Iraq. I come from a military family (Uncle is 2-star General, dad was in 101st airborne) and I am very educated about what war means. I try not to lump all Republicans into one net of “evil fascist constitution shredders.’ It’s hard, I try. Maybe you should try to see ‘leftists’ as individuals, too.

‘lefty’, ‘liberal’, ‘progressive’

For the sake of this conversation  I’ll use the term leftist.

The left cozy with Islam? If they ain’t cozy, then they sure as hell don’t rub each other the wrong way in the ideological bed that they share. CAIR and other muslim apologists are riding on the coattail of every so-call “social justice” organization that they can hustle, using the same lawsuit intimidation tactics as Jessie Jackson or the ACLU. And their objectives are quite similar; the eradication of Christian influence, the destruction of Israel, censorship under the guise of “hate speech” laws, the end of profiling, a diminished role for America in the world, destruction of capitalism, accommodation to the third world and the middle east – to name just a few items where the left and islamists are in concordance.

The left and islam share the same ideological root system. Call it nihilism, call it post-modern, progressivism, call it anything you wish -  it is a root that produces a virulently anti-human, anti-freedom fruit. You have a selection of totalitarian doctrines that all contend that humans must be collected and herded like cattle, seen as economical units, expendable when too costly to maintain. It all denigrates man into beings less than animals, bereft of individual will and value. Indeed the left elevates animals and reviles man. Muslims and leftists both espouse ideologies that would reduce man to utter misery.

The writer of this post says it quite well. I would add that it is far from an isolated opinion, but the consensus of those who have spent the last several years studying this.

The onset of the 21st Century saw a revival of Leftist radicalism. While the old 1968 hippy generation saw it’s ideals drowned in a cesspool of drugs and experiments in social licentiousness, Post modernism has shed itself of all values: life is futile, man’s efforts are absurd in their presumptuousness and arrogance.

This radical Left movement is just as ready for a scorched earth as radical Islamism is. Whereas the former have nothing left to lose after their ideals collapsed over their ears, the latter are urged to self-sacrifice for a global victory of the collective Ummah. It is a marriage quite literally made in hell: both are negators of the life-force, but for different reasons.

A culture’s implicit sense of life is all-pervasive. Theirs has translated into the negative territory of nihilism and death-worship. For Muslims man is a mere plaything in the hands of a fickle God. To Postmodernists man is a drifter in a purposeless, unknowable universe whose fate is determined by chaos and glandular secretions.

And this is how we got here.
Let’s Get it Right

I try not to lump all Republicans into one net of “evil fascist constitution shredders”.

Certainly you jest. With Obama on record as having taken shots at the constitution throughout his public career, including in his latest overblown speech – surely you do not think the constitution is now safe? And the constitution has been being “shredded” over the course of many decades by all political persuasions – persuasions that all share the same root of antipathy towards the west.

Maybe you should try to see ‘leftists’ as individuals, too.

I do. They are individuals whom I oppose.  I see no grounds for compromise and I care not a whit if a leftist rants  against islam at the top of his lungs if he refuses to see the similarities between it and socialism or Marxism. Of what good are their protests, ala Christopher Hitchens, if they turn around and advocate for a form of government as intrusive and dehumanizing?

Perhaps the left does not recognize their spiritual cousins because they still are carrying around the debunked and discredited Edward Said Orientalism model. Perhaps because they continue to reduce a blood thirsty, beheading jihadist down to the level of an annoying criminal. Maybe, because the left is incapable of naming evil, they are unable to discern the evil in their own and islam’s doctrines. Whatever the reason for the blind spot, the fact remains that, short of divine intervention, the left and islam will lead this world to hell. How they destroy each other along the way will make an interesting, if tragic, sideshow.

And perhaps the collusion between the Hamas jihadists and the world’s leftest communities escaped your attention.  Looks pretty damn cozy to me.

No one shouted “Go Back to the Oven” at the pro-Hamas rallies held in Atlanta in the last few days, but the sentiment was echoed in the messages their organizers promoted. Islamic fundamentalists spouted their hatred at the gatherings far-Left activists called to protest Israel’s self-defense. The unholy alliance met at the CNN Center January 3rd and at the Israeli consulate the previous Tuesday, where CAIR members and Communists blocked traffic, endorsed the annihilation of Israel, dressed in terrorist garb, extolled those plotting a new Holocaust, and equated Jewish self-defense with Nazi genocide.

The tone should be no surprise considering who organized these events. The organizational force behind both was the Atlanta chapter of the International Action Center (IAC). An e-mail from the IAC indicated that Emory Advocates for Justice in Palestine, Athens for Justice in Palestine, and other “peace and justice organizations” would be involved. On site, I discovered these “peace and justice organizations” included the once-laudable Amnesty International – alongside, the International Socialist Organization and the Revolutionary Communist Party. (The RCP publication Revolution were also represented.)
Continue reading….Hate on the Home Front

I’ll end with this piece. It speaks for itself.

Urban radicalism in Europe as portrayed by the recent riots in Athens is a constant worry of the European security services, since there is ample evidence of wider connections between radicals and terrorists.

There are two major themes to be looked upon. Firstly the relationship between the extreme-leftist terrorist groups that operate in the so-called “Mediterranean axis” – France, Italy, Greece and Spain – and secondly, the connection of these groups to Islamic extremists.

The radical – anarchist movement in Europe is pretty strong and well organized with thousands of loyal supporters. Back in 2005, the riots in Paris proved that the radicals and second-generation Muslim immigrants in France were able to form the political agenda of that time, although they were not successful in preventing Sarkozy’s ascendance to power 18 months later.
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In Italy, the local press revealed in 2006 that the remains of the Red Brigades were forming a strategy of collaboration with Islamists in order to create a common front against Western capitalism. The information came after the Italian intelligence services tapped the phones of the Italian terrorist group shortly before the group was about to launch new attacks.

In the same country, popular youth radical magazines such as “Voce” propagate with great enthusiasm the works of Hizballah and Hamas. It is also public knowledge that radical NGOs across continental Europe support illegal immigration into Europe and express a great interest in attacking any traditional aspects of contemporary Western civilization and culture.

Lorenzo Vidino, an Italian writer and security analyst describes a “flirt between the radical Left and the Islamists in Europe that tends to become an open cooperation in the streets of every main European metropolis….” Continue reading….Urban Radicalism in Europe & Terrorism

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