>>>>For example, the raging homosexual underground that's been related by several long-term Middle East expats (e.g. even going back to the first several pages of T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars Of Wisdom).
Is this the common alliance the left seems to have with Islam?
Dunno. A friend with 15+ years expat work mentioned it to me, and a few Freepers with similar M-E backgrounds have also mentioned it.
Here's what T.E. Lawrence described, though it gets more graphic in the book:
"Our privations and dangers fanned this virile heat, in a climate as racking as can be conceived. We had no shut places to be alone in, no thick clothes to hide our nature. Man in all things lived candidly with man."
http://www.wesjones.com/sevenpillars%2000.xml
What is the connection between the democratic left and Islam (one clearly exists)?
It seems to me that the connection is much larger than just sexual. I suggest that it has more to do with their entire beliefs.
Both Islam and secular humanism are perversely cobbled together from the Jewish/Christian faith in such a way that the resulting product is virulently anti-Jewish and anti-Christian. Ultimately, I think it is their common hatred that unites them.
In Islam, in general, we have come to see the violence and seething anger that defines it. And recently, with their losing of the election, we have been surprised by vitriol expressed by the democratic left. The curtain has been pulled back to reveal the prime mover of both groups...anger/hatred.
However, this begs the question, "what is the source of this anger?"
I suggest this also comes from a common source but I will leave that to your imagination.