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Exposing the Contradictions within the islamist-Communist Alliance
It is a striking fact of post-9/11 history, that following its defeat
in the Cold War the American and global left has rejuvenated itself through its opposition to the War on Terror. It has thus launched what will
possibly be another twenty year "revolution" against the cause of freedom,
equally as futile and potentially even more destructive than its
efforts on behalf of the now defeated and defunct Communist empire.
The leftist and Communist view of America is so negative as to justify their
opposition to a war for the freedom of 25 million Muslims (from the
tyranny of Islam) and the future of democracy in the Middle East.
The different facets of this Islamist-Communist alliance are a kind
of Humpty-Dumptyism." The left is an Anti-American cult. The same
is true of its nihilism, which is universal in the left. Qualities
they share with the Islamists. This is the binding glue based on the Communist negativism of hate for free-economy of the West along with the Islamists
fear that globalization would lead to erosion of Islam though its globalizing impact.
Thus the atheistic Communists and the fervent theology-inspired Muslim maniacs, gay and women's
liberation adovcating Commies and gay basher and women basher Mussies, both of whom have a totalitarian
vision of a doctrinnaire dictatorship, based on the Shariah and the
Quran for the Muslims and on Das Kapital and the Communist Manefisto
for the Communists make these two strange bedfellows come together
with the common aim of threatening the free and civilized way of life.
Today the left is still divided over its plans for the future, but
these plans pale into insignificance in terms of its real passion
which is its nihilistic antagonism towards the United States the
metropolis at the center of the global capitalist system. Its
overweening hatred of global capitalism – "globalization" – which is
its energizing force, explains how it can make opportunistic
alliances with Islamic fundamentalists who share the same enemy. The
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the targets of Osama Bin Laden
are not coincidently the very symbols of globalization and the
American-led world capitalist system of a free economy that the
communists hate.
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healingiraq _____________________
The hydra-headed Islamist-Communist Alliance - A threat to
civilization
As in the last decades of the Cold War, when it did not exactly
embrace the Communist enemies but instead "critically supported"
them, the left does not exactly embrace the Islamist terrorists
today. But it does the next best thing by offering them critical
support in the form of apologetics for their savagery ("root causes"
etc.), by mounting relentless attacks on America's defenses (the
Patriot Act), diversionary and morale-sapping propaganda campaigns
over Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and even a political movement to
sabotage the military effort to liberate Iraq (the "Counter-
Recruitment campaign on America's college and high school campuses).
Unholy Alliance is an attempt to understand this phenomenon: to
explain the paradox of a left that thinks of itself as "progressive"
but which has once again entered into an unholy alliance with the
most reactionary and oppressive forces on the planet.
Why have American radicals actively obstructed the war on terror..?
Why have liberals opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom whose goals are the
overthrow of tyranny and the establishment of political democracy and
human rights—agendas that coincide with their own? Why have Democrats
turned against the policy of regime change, which they had supported
during the Clinton administration in both Kosova and Iraq? Why has
the Democratic Party declared political war on the President's war
and thus made foreign policy a point of partisan conflict?...
These are the questions this article seeks to address. In doing so,
we necessarily must confront others: What is the nature of the
American left? How does it think about the world? How did it come to
ally itself with Islamic jihad? How significant is the threat posed
by its opposition to the war on terror? How powerful is its presence
in the Democratic Party? What is its role in shaping the American
future?
The leftist-Islamist coalition is unified by its opposition to the
war in Iraq and more particularly by its antagonism towards the
United States and Israel. The task I set for myself in Unholy
Alliance was to explain this unity, to identify the coherence of the
leftist worldview amidst all of its apparent cacophony and conflict.
What is it about the left that causes it to hate America and Israel,
two multi-ethnic democracies which in the practical environment of
international politics are arguably the most decent societies on the
face of the earth?
Today the left is still divided over its plans for the future, but
these plans pale into insignificance in terms of its real passion
which is its nihilistic antagonism towards the United States the
metropolis at the center of the global capitalist system. Its
overweening hatred of global capitalism – "globalization" – which is
its energizing force, explains how it can make opportunistic
alliances with Islamic fundamentalists who share the same enemy. The
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the targets of Osama Bin Laden
are not coincidently the very symbols of globalization and the
American-led world capitalist system of a free economy that the
communists hate.
It is true that Tony Blair is America's closest ally in the war to
liberate Iraq and is also a member of the socialist International.
But Blair is an anomaly. The bulk of his party opposes the war and so
do the majority of social democrats – in Spain and elsewhere. How
does the left oppose Operation Iraqi Freedom, a campaign to liberate
Iraq? It does so, because it regards America as a greater threat than
the forces arrayed against America in Iraq. It does so, because it
regards the priority of toppling Saddam far less than that of
opposing American power. The Great Satan. And of course Israel in
this perspective is inevitably the "Little Satan," the root cause not
only of the misery of the Middle East but of the terrorist movement
(desperate people who have no other option), as well. In other words
the nihilistic vector, which emanates from the idea of a social
redemption and is blocked by the United States (and Israel) is today
what defines the left. Interestingly, the same conclusion has been
drawn by a leftist historian named Andre Markovits, writing in the
Winter 2005 issue of the social democratic journal Dissent.
The left's need for a political redemption overcomes such differences
and forges the coalition which includes the Islamofascists. This
coalition is most obvious and visible in the global crusade of
Islamist fundamentalists and secular leftists to Continue the Cold
War against the West while riding piggback on the shoulders of the
Islamofascists.
The leftist view of America is so negative as to justify their
opposition to a war for the freedom of 25 million Muslims (from the
tyranny of Islam) and the future of democracy in the Middle East.
The different facets of this Islamist-Communist alliance are a kind
of Humpty-Dumptyism." The left is an Anti-American cult. The same
is true of its nihilism, which is universal in the left. Qualities
they share with the Islamists. This is the binding glue based on the Communist negativism of hate for free-economy of the West along with the Islamists
fear that globalization would lead to erosion of Islam though its globalizing impact.
Thus atheistic Communists and fervent theology inspired Muslim maniacs, gay and women's
liberation advocating Commies and gay basher and women basher Mussies, both of whom have a totalitarian
vision of a doctrinaire dictatorship, based on the Shariah and the
Quran for the Muslims and on Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto
for the Communists make these two strange bedfellows come together
with the common aim of threatening the free and civilized way of life.
Story Credits David Horowitz
writing in FrontPageMagazine.com and Waronjihad team
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