Why Lefties and Islamists Believe the Way They Do.

American Thinker ^ | 1 Sep, 2026 | Christopher Chantrill

[MtnClimber]

What is communism? asks Krzysztof Szczawinski on X. No, it’s not the “bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union.” No, it’s not “a discredited economic theory”.

[Instead, it’s] a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper -- a civilizational war against truth itself[.]

Then he goes on to give us two words that the Poles invented to describe life under communism:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] -- a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood[.]

And

Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] -- a deep, performative hypocrisy[.]

I’m sure he’s right. Only I believe that all politics amounts to a Big Lie, and utterly irradiated with hypocrisy.

But wait. Here is Hussein Aboubakr Mansour telling us “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis” or “How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought.”

I discussed it at length on my Substack.

Mansour tells the story about how Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, a Sunni cleric, [was] sent to Paris in 1826 as chaplain to the first Egyptian student mission. Five years later he published An Overview of Paris. Then he opened a school “where generations of Egyptian officials learned to turn French administrative and legal prose into Arabic.”

At the beginning, the Arabs didn’t have narrative fiction, didn’t have sentences, didn’t have punctuation and paragraphs, didn’t have a bunch of words that you need to describe life in post-industrial revolution Europe. So the first generation of western-educated Arabs learned it all in the culture of post-revolutionary France under the influence of left-wing radicalism.

No wonder Arabs are all total radicals committed to revolution and fundamental transformation, just like our leftie friends.

And no wonder that radical Islam is today joined at the hip with radical European leftism.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: islam; leftism

[Macoozie]

Very similar stuff to separatist religious groups all over America. They believe false crap and nearly isolate within their group.
Believing things that aren’t true supported by insular, separatist groups think.

[MeanWestTexan]

You kind of left off “Deviance” (although you mentioned it early on)

Distress
Dysfunction
Danger
Deviance

Deviance refers to behavior that falls outside the statistical norms or social expectations of a given society

[spankalib]

Professionals evaluate these conditions using guides like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Yeah. Until an organized mob of homosexuals change the DSM, right?

[LambSlave]

There are two kinds of people: Those who are willing, even excited, to provide for themselves and their families and want only to be left alone to thrive; these kind of people seek out challenge, and accept risk gladly for reward. Then there are those who are terrified of the thought of failure, who want someone else to ensure that they always have enough, and will provide security and deal with any risks or challenges. Communism appeals to the second type— it frames an ideology based on victimhood. The first type people are the oppressors— they did not gain their confidence and abilities fairly, they cheated you to gain it. You must band together with others like yourself, then you can defeat them and force them to provide for you.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

If Michiganders show up to the polls ...

1) Rogers has this Senate run in the bag as the months continue leading up to the election.

2) James would do well to start connecting Benson to Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed as much and as quickly as possible for the Michigan Governor's race, too.

[cowboyusa]

Agree, and POINT TO FLORIDA.

[Vaduz]

Mental Disorders applies and the lack of civility to them too it’s why they do what they do.

[Vaduz]

Check

[sauropod]

I don’t care.